How to make difficult decisions? We discuss it on the podcast “Who Would Talk”
Miscellaneous / / November 10, 2023
We talk about fateful moments and difficulties of choice.
In the third season of the conversational podcast “Who Would Talk,” the hosts Mikhail Volnykh and Daria Bakina and psychologist Elena Kotova responds to letters from Lifehacker’s friends - authors of famous audio shows, bloggers and media managers.
The question for the new episode is asked by Masha Dolgopolova, host of the podcast “Plan b». How to find the perfect solution, what's wrong with being a perfectionist, and what to do if you have to choose from two equally bad options - turn on the episode to figure it out together with us.
5:11 — is it possible to predict which of our decisions in the future will turn out to be turning points and turning points?
9:29 — Are there any psychological techniques that help you choose the most effective solution?
11:01 — Is perfectionism a gift or a curse?
13:12 — how to get rid of the desire for perfection when making decisions.
19:39 — what to do if you always make the wrong decisions.
21:02 — what to do in a situation with a “Morton’s fork” — when you have to choose between two evils.
23:08 — how to adjust your thinking so that you don’t regret a decision you once made for the rest of your life.
26:01 - which will help when problems with choice arise even in the simplest everyday situations.
29:59 — summing up the results of the release.
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What to read on the topic of the issue🧐
- How our brain makes decisions and why it needs social networks: biologist Vyacheslav Dubynin explains
- Why we make bad decisions and how to stop doing it
- 7 ways to learn to make decisions