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#132: How to Influence What People Think
Ever agonize over how people will react to what you say?
Does the anticipation of people's reactions ever cause you to change what you share...or even what you do?
I've worked with so many people who make inauthentic...
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#131: Two Spins on Gratitude You Haven't Heard Yet
Happy Thanksgiving, real-time listeners!
Today, and going into the final season of the year, I want to give you two of the most accessible and life-changing tools in the Decision Mastery arsenal:
"Inquiry" (aka "The...
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#130: Don't Make These HUGE Mistakes with Your Next BIG Decision
Thinking through my recent BIG decision to move (which I made quickly with relatively little friction*), I realized I need to call out some BIG mistakes people can make in situations like these.
*Note: "little...
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#129: Perspective-Taking and Delayed Gratification (Cognitive Biases Pt 5)
Meet the final two Cognitive Tendencies and Biases in our series!
Perspective-Taking and Delayed Gratification. 🙌
This episode will help you better understand:
Why you misinterpret other people's meanings
Why other...
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#128: Negativity Bias (Cognitive Biases Pt 4)
Ok...we have a pretty good sense of Negativity Bias at the surface.
Negative information has a greater impact than positive information, when it comes to cognitive processing.
But do you know exactly how and why this...
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#127: Causal Attribution (Cognitive Biases Pt 3)
How often do you assume you know WHY something happened?
How quickly do you land on a conclusion about why something DIDN'T happen?
Turns out, we humans are great at assigning "causes" to things.Â
We're just not great...
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#126: Confirmation Bias (Cognitive Biases Pt 2)
You might be familiar with Confirmation Bias.
But do you know how to use it to your advantage?
What about a quick, easy way to make sure you're not being blinded by it?
I've got you covered in this episode. đź‘Ť
Listen...
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#125: The Fluency Effect and Planning Fallacy (Cognitive Biases Pt 1)
We all want to make smart, thoughtful, "rational" decisions, right?
But how do we do that when we're working with a biased brain?
Today's episode is pulled from a Workshop I did for a Decision Masters Coaching Group,...
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#124: This is an IshYOU, Not an IshME (aka: When an issue has nothing to do with you)
Ok. So there's a problem.
Maybe someone's saying it's your fault. Or they're implying it. Or you're just assuming it.
What do you do? Well, if you're like a lot of folks, you go into Auto-Wrong Mode.
You question...
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#123: How to Make a Decision an “Experiment”
The idea of deciding something "as an experiment" is appealing because it implies lower stakes and easier commitment, right?
But how do you "experiment" with big life choices that you can't just undo if you change...
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#122: The Key to Succeeding at Your Plan (instead of Judging It)
How often do you set a goal - or create a plan to deal with a circumstance - only for it not to work perfectly and for you to end up feeling like a failure who "should've planned better"?
Whether you wanted to "get X...
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#121: Time to Update Your Core Values
Whether you're going through a big life change or you've simply experienced an internal "season shift," now is a great time to check in and update your Core Values.
The best questions I can offer to make this easy...
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