Home / Books / How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Book by Annie Duke · 3 quotes · Decision Making, Non Fiction, Productivity

Browse quotes from How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.

Book detail: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Decision Making Non Fiction Productivity Psychology Decision Path Control Outcome Choice Execution Future Goal Influence Irrational Navigation Odd Optimism

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices Quotes

“For any single decision, there are different ways the future could unfold—some better, some worse. When you make a decision, the decision makes certain paths possible (even if you don’t know where they lead) and others impossible. The decision you make determines which set of outcomes are possible and how likely each of those outcomes is. But it doesn’t determine which of that set of outcomes will actually happen.”

Decision Future Outcome

Book:How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“Luck exerts its influence between your decision and which of the possible paths you end up on. It is the element you have no control over that determines which of the possible outcomes you actually observe in the short run.”

Decision Path Influence Control Outcome

Book:How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

“If you had a navigation app for your goals and decisions, it would work like a premortem and a backcast and its output would look like the Decision Exploration Table. You’ve identified two broad categories of future events (those within and outside your control) that could decrease or increase your chances of failure or success and made an educated guess about their likelihood. You now have a good map of what might lie in the path on the way to your goal.”

Goal Decision Path Control Navigation

Book:How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices