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Making decisions when you can vs. when you have to makes for better decisions.

Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

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Some decisions are best made after acquiring more information; some are best made immediately.

Systemize your decision making.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

From a utilitarian perspective, a good decision-making system is one in which the decision makers are more likely than otherwise to make decisions that produce good results. In principle, this could be one in which all decision-making power is vested in a single philosopher king. But everything we know of history and human nature suggests that this is a bad idea. Instead, it seems we're better off with representative democracy, coupled with a free press and widely accessible education, and so on, and so forth.

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The decisions are made in the moment they are made.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

The correctness of a decision can’t be judged from the outcome. Nevertheless, that's how people assess it. A good decision is one that’s optimal at the time it’s made, when the future is by definition unknown. Thus, correct decisions are often unsuccessful, and vice versa.

How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

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