Felice Lam

“Chapter 3: The Decision Multiverse (page 53)

What you are starting to create is the foundation of a decision tree, a useful tool for evaluating past decisions and improving the quality of new ones.”
― Annie Duke, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 20)

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

When someone has a bad outcome in their life, we judge their decision-making as poor because of resulting. That makes it easy to blame them for the way things turned out. No need to have compassion because the outcome was their fault.

And it's not just other people. We lack self-compassion when we make these connections in our own lives. We beat ourselves up when things don't work out the way we had hoped.

For good outcomes, we're not doing anyone a service by potentially overlooking their mistakes simply because it worked out. We're definitely hurting ourselves, not just in learning, but in assessing our self-worth based on how things turned out rather than on whether we made a good decision under the circumstances.”
― Annie Duke, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“Chapter 2: As the Old Saying Goes, Hindsight Is Not 20/20 (page 29)

Hindsight bias

The tendency to believe an event, after it occurs, was predictable or inevitable. It's also been referred to as "knew-it-all-along" thinking or "creeping determinism.”
― Annie Duke, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“Introduction (page XV)

No matter what type of decision you're facing, it's imperative to develop a decision process that not only improves your decision quality, but also helps sort your decisions so you can identify which ones are bigger and which ones are smaller.”
― Annie Duke, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices