Habits That Make You A Bad Decision-Maker: Remaining Locked In The Past

Some decisions are never made because one person is waiting for another, who in turn is waiting for someone else’s decision or input.

Effective decision-makers find a way to act independently when necessary.

• Narrow framing: The tendency to define our choices in binary terms. We ask, "should I, or shouldn't I?" instead of “What are the ways I could...?”
• Confirmation bias: People tend to select the information that supports their preexi...

• When people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it
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