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How to Avoid Making Decisions (1)

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Recourse to someone or even something else: For example, in contrast to astrology, one must accept the fact that success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but due to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstones of hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance.

Correct answer: (b) fortuitous

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False hopes: False hope and fear are two sides of the same coin — we can promise according to our hopes that are under our control only (and have some degree of certainty on its outcome), but we avoid making decisions according to our fears of the outcomes.

Correct answer: (b) coin

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Do not think about it: The decision-makers who are waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves; you can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle.

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Do anchoring: Give disproportional weight to some information instead of waiting as long as possible in order to have all the information.

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Sunk-cost conscious: Repeat the same decision because you have invested so much in this approach (or your current job) that you cannot abandon it or make another decision (or look for a better position).

Correct answer: (c) Sunk

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Look for confirming evidence: Seek out the information to support an existing preselection and discount opposing ones.

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Pray for a miracle: Emerson said, "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."

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Be over-confident: This makes you optimistic and then you make high risk decisions; as Henri Poincare said, "Doubt everything or believe everything — these are two equally convenient strategies, and with either, we dispense with the need to think for ourselves."

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Be too prudent: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose opportunities by fearing to make our decision — and not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others who depend on you.

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Misrepresentation: Use argument that seems scientific — for example, compute and use the average salary as a typical representative of salary rather than the median.

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