How to Make Good Choices: A System for Decision Making

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We all have to make big choices in life, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when facing major decisions about careers, relationships, or personal growth. In this episode, Forrest and Rick Hanson explore how to develop a reliable system for making choices that align with your values and goals. They break down balancing analysis with intuition, the five key decision-making styles, and common obstacles that lead to poor choices. The episode also includes two live demonstrations of working through a big decision, which includes learning how to identify what you want and pursue it from a values-oriented perspective. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 3:50: Analysis vs. intuition, and activities vs. results 10:45: Effort, values, and the environments you put yourself in 17:05: The five decision-making styles 28:50: Motives and attachment 33:30: Rigidity, excessive certainty, and other common pitfalls 42:10: Demo #1 - Reverse-engineering a career decision (or Rick with a legal pad) 1:04:55: Demo #2 - Deciding whether to invest deeply in a romantic relationship 1:18:00: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hanson. If you're new to the show,
0:11.2	thanks for listening today. And if you've listened to before, welcome back. Today we're going to be
0:15.6	exploring one of the most important skills we can develop, how to make good choices. We'll talk about what good
0:21.9	decisions tend to have in common, look at some common mistakes people make when making decisions,
0:27.3	explore different decision-making styles, and help you figure out what yours might be. Then later
0:32.5	in the episode, we'll walk through a few real-world examples to make all of this very practical and to help us out.
0:38.9	I'm joined today as usual by clinical psychologist Rick Hansen. He's also my dad. Dad,
0:43.7	how are you doing today? I'm really great. As you know, I'm just back from a three-week
0:48.2	meditation retreat. I want to put a little nod in here for the teacher, Stephen Snyder.
0:56.1	Wonderful teacher. I truly recommend him very highly. You can search him online. I think we may have had him as a guest.
1:01.6	Yeah, we've had him on the show. It was a while back. I think of that conversation often,
1:05.8	actually. It was a really good one. That's really great. So I'm in pretty good shape, and if I begin
1:09.6	to babble, well, that's my excuse.
1:12.0	Okay. I love this topic, partly because as the saying has it in medicine, good judgment comes
1:18.1	from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. And I think good decision making comes in part
1:23.8	from learning the lessons of bad decision-making.
1:32.9	And I'm really happy to disclose, you know, at least some of my major mistakes in that regard.
1:33.7	Forrest may have his own private list, you know, about my mistakes.
1:37.5	Just between me and God, baby.
1:39.4	Hopefully, you'll keep it private.
1:41.4	Anyway, as context, I want to say something about context. In other words,
1:47.5	good decision making, particularly about things that matter, comes from, you know, a lot of
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