2 Second Decisions
2 Second Decisions

Author: Michelle Rozen

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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You are about to get the most amazing master key to changing your personal and professional life in the most incredible ways. It only takes 2 seconds to change your life. You may ask yourself, "2 seconds? Is that even possible?" It is. It's science. I'll share it with you. You change your life one 2 second decision at a time. In fact, it is the fastest way you can get in the driver's seat of your life, work and courage, no matter where you are in your life right now. This is the story of the 2 Second Decision--what it is, how it works, and how it has transformed the lives of people all over the world, including my own. You'll find that the formula for making 2 second decisions is easy and simple, but that its impact is extraordinary. It is the formula for changing anything that hurts you, anything that doesn't work for you, any area in your life or career you want to grow and expand. This formula will help you live, work, lead and speak up with courage and confidence. Once you use it, it will become your best kept secret for success in whatever you do. The book is written by Dr. Michelle Rozen, founder of Success Academy and America's leading expert on the psychology of change, after decades of working with fortune 500 companies, the world's leading brands and everyday people on using the incredible power of mindful decision-making, to get to the life and success that they want a deserve. Now these winning strategies are available to you, so that you can get in the driver's seat of your life, work and courage, with everyday 2 second decisions and powerfully winning choices.

Training Your Mind for Split-Second Decisions
Training Your Mind for Split-Second Decisions

Author: Geoffrey Mount Varner

Publisher: Beyond the Book Media LLC

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781734256666

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We make about 35,000 decisions every day. Most of them are mundane and not significant, but about 70 of those decisions are life-changing and life-altering split-second decisions. What are split-second decisions? They are decisions made when the following factors are involved: time constraint, limited information, and critical consequences. This is also known as the TLC framework. In this book, you will learn: ① Specific strategies to improve and maximize your split-second decision-making ability. ② To manage decision fatigue, which is the decrease in your ability to make optimal decisions as the day progresses, especially if you had to make several mundane decisions throughout the day. ③ The required rules for making split-second decisions- i.e., no decision is a decision. You must decide. If you are an executive, business leader, chief, first responder, or in a leadership role, the framework for split-second decisions is a tool that gives you an advantage in making optimal decisions at the most critical times. When making split-second decisions, you have either been trained or you are guessing. The same is true for your employees and those you lead. They have either been taught and have a clear framework for what and how to respond during these critical times, or they are guessing. Split-second decisions teach extraordinary leaders how to make exceptional decisions and help move good teams to greatness.

How We Decide
How We Decide

Author: Jonah Lehrer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010-01-14

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0547347480

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The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. But when we’re picking a stock, intuition often leads us astray. The trick is to determine when to use the different parts of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think. Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of “deciders”—from airplane pilots and hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players. Lehrer shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. His goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?

The Magic of 2 Seconds
The Magic of 2 Seconds

Author: Maxim Dsouza

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-29

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13:

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Your mind can do amazing things in 2 seconds. This book is all about learning how to become self aware by improving your decisions and avoiding mistakes in less than a couple of seconds. "Wait, 2 seconds? I can't get off the couch that fast," you complain. You're right. your body needs time to perform an action, but your brain is a million times faster. The best part is your thoughts are lightning quick, no matter what your IQ. You do not need Einstein's intelligence to process thoughts in 2 seconds. Aren't you capable of having a conversation by processing what you hear and replying right after? If you can do that, there is no reason why you cannot think and make better choices in a snap of fingers. Have you said something wrong due to a slip of the tongue? Have you made a blunder you immediately regretted? Have you acted in a hurry without thinking through? 99% of our decisions are small. Yet, we waste time trying to find big ideas which will change our life. Wouldn't it be wiser to improve the little choices we make day in and day out instead? If you master the art of making better decisions in a flash, you will achieve fantastic results. The Magic of 2 Seconds helps you avoid such silly mistakes and teaches you how to make decisions in life the right way. This book may not stimulate a billion-dollar idea, but it will help you correct the little errors you commit often. These little changes compound over time to make you a better person and achieve higher success in professional and personal life. You can harness the power of 2 seconds to learn: ◆ How to avoid unnecessary arguments with your partner, friends or coworkers ◆ How to counter the urge of eating junk food or skipping your workout ◆ How to stop procrastination and laziness of the little tasks like doing your laundry or replying to an email ◆ How to prevent impulsive buying when you visit a mall or a shopping website ◆ How to bring about an improvement in productivity by working on your time management skills ◆ How to take a risk in business or personal life by making better bets between the pessimistic and over-optimistic mindset ◆ How to be empathetic and build long-lasting relationships ◆ How to become a self aware leader After reading the book, you will develop mindfulness about every little action you take. Consider learning the skill like driving. At first, you will have to remind yourself to look at the rearview mirror or signal when you change lanes. Once the behavior is engraved into your subconscious brain, it will become a part of your second nature. Practicing the 2 second principle is the secret recipe for developing the self awareness skills of a zen monk. Your brain is capable of a lot more than you think. Read this book to tap into the magic of your mind using just 2 seconds.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Author: Daniel Kahneman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1429969350

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*Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.

Sources of Power
Sources of Power

Author: Gary A. Klein

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780262611466

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An overview of naturalistic decision making, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced.

Second That Emotion
Second That Emotion

Author: Jeremy D. Holden

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1616146656

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An advertising and communications expert traces the fascinating process whereby a passion for an idea, a politician, a celebrity, or a brand gives rise to a set of illogical beliefs that becomes the basis for a powerful movement. Conventional wisdom has it that spin doctors and Madison Avenue are responsible for manipulating our thoughts, causing us to endorse ideas or buy products that we would otherwise reject outright. Holden shows that while advertising and propaganda can provide a spark and social media provides the kindling, individuals create consumer, political, and cultural trends based, more often than not, on thinking that they know logically to be flawed.For businesspeople who want to see their company or brand break through, this book is both essential and entertaining reading. For the rest of us, the author provides a window into our decision-making processes, and how emotion-based illogical leaps drive our support for movements, whether they are political, commercial, or related to popular culture.

The Beautiful Brain
The Beautiful Brain

Author: Larry W. Swanson

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1613129947

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At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was the father of modern neuroscience and an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body’s most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualization, based on fanatically precise techniques and countless hours at the microscope, resulted in some of the most remarkable illustrations in the history of science. Beautiful Brain presents a selection of his exquisite drawings of brain cells, brain regions, and neural circuits with accessible descriptive commentary. These drawings are explored from multiple perspectives: Larry W. Swanson describes Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience; Lyndel King and Eric Himmel explore his artistic roots and achievement; Eric A. Newman provides commentary on the drawings; and Janet M. Dubinsky describes contemporary neuroscience imaging techniques. This book is the companion to a traveling exhibition opening at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis in February 2017, marking the first time that many of these works, which are housed at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, have been seen outside of Spain. Beautiful Brain showcases Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience, explores his artistic roots and achievement, and looks at his work in relation to contemporary neuroscience imaging, appealing to general readers and professionals alike.

Disputed Decisions of World War II
Disputed Decisions of World War II

Author: Mark Thompson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1476638381

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A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.

Think Again
Think Again

Author: Sydney Finkelstein

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2009-02-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1422133370

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Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need. Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.