Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

One of the top audio's I have heard this year. So many great actionable advice on decision making provided in an engaging format. While it is hard to remember all of them you don't have to. They have the main points summarized on-line for those who purchase their audio. While I have heard bits and pieces of many of these ideas in other audio books this one brought the best ones together and was able to expand on them. If you enjoyed their previous work (Made to Stick or Switch) then you will not be disappointed by Decisive. Unlike many other authors each book is very different and they do not repeat themselves.

Decent book (I listened to the audiobook version) with some good ways to update your decision making model (using techniques such as "ooching", "setting tripwires", "widen our options,"narrow framing, and "What would have to be true for this to be the best option?"). I'm giving this 3 stars because I liked it, but overall I think this main points could be summarized very quickly so felt that I was always waiting for the next 'killer insight'.

I feel like I'm good at making decisions, so I had plenty to learn from this book. Spoiler alert: It turns out that I'm NOT good at decisions, I'm just decisive and now I know there's a difference.

I learned a lot of tools from this book for my life decisions and they are very applicable, so that is good. My 3 stars instead of 4 is because I felt like the organization was kind of rambling and all over the place, but not bad enough that I couldn't follow along. I also found myself getting bored and having to refocus my attention on what they were trying to teach me multiple times.

Summary of my review: Great info that we should all learn in school for life. Could have been better with fewer words and better organization.

A hattrick by the Heath brothers. A simple yet decisive book on decision making, what stops us from making good decisions, and what we can do about it encapsulated in a simple yet comprehensive WRAP framework. A good read and a must have for your shelves.

Most of the suggestions aren't new to me, but the authors lay them out in an organized fashion that helps me see where I have blind spots in my decision-making processes (and that my natural defensive-pessimism style of decision making is already pretty aligned with their recommended process). The book is almost ten years old but the suggestions still feel relevant (even if some of the references are a dated).

The Heath Brothers do it again: Practical advice for living better. They keep the advice simple, back it up with motivating and memorable stories, and help you make something you do every day (in this case, making decisions) much better. None of the advice is particularly ground-breaking, but they present it in a way that will help you actually remember. And if you can remember how to make better decisions, you'll start actually making better decisions. If you make better decisions in your life, well, then it was worth reading this book.

Very good book with a dense amount of tips to use in making better choices.

Some of the helpful tips that stuck out:
10-10-10 When struggling to make a decision, think about how you will feel about it 10 minutes from now, 10 months from now, 10 years from now. It's oh so easy to find short term excuses. Thinking in the 10-10-10 framework forces you to think past those short term excuses.

What would you best friend tell you to do?

To get people to choose between A and B ... Think about what needs to happen to make A the right choice and what needs to happen to make B the right choice.

Ooch

I like the book enough to consider re-reading it again when I'm in a different time frame. There is some good advice here that is applicable to most show more everyone's life (maybe not my 8.5 month daughter). show less