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⚖️Refine your actionable decision skills
Make calmer, sharper decisions you can actually defend later
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Unit 1
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Course overview
Why decisions are the lever
Decisions compound
Two systems in your head
System 1 and System 2
Why your brain takes shortcuts
Heuristics and biases
Anchoring
The first number sticks
Unit 2
Availability
Easy to recall feels likely
Confirmation bias
You hunt for "yes"
Sunk cost fallacy
Don't throw good after bad
Loss aversion and framing
Losses hurt more
Overconfidence and hindsight
We're surer than we should be
Unit 3
The halo effect
One good trait colors the rest
Resulting, the big one
Decision quality is not outcome quality
Think in bets and probabilities
Replace certainty with odds
Expected value
Weigh payoff by odds
Base rates
Start from how common it is
Unit 4
Consider the opposite
Argue against yourself
A simple weighted decision
Pros and cons with weights
The Eisenhower matrix
Urgent is not important
One-way and two-way doors
Match effort to reversibility
The premortem
Imagine it already failed
Unit 5
Satisficing vs maximizing
Good enough beats perfect
When to trust your gut
Intuition needs valid feedback
Analysis paralysis and group traps
Two failure modes to avoid
Your decision checklist
A routine for big calls
Where to go next
Where to go next