The ObservatoryThe big crossroads
A recurring tool for the big crossroads — the job, the move, the relationship — which weighs the options against your own criteria rather than the mood of the day
How it works
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A big crossroads — the job, the move, the relationship — rarely feels unresolved because facts are missing. It feels unresolved because too many things weigh on you at once, with no order. We start by setting it down, on …
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Why does it work?
Testing options against a few stated criteria, rather than weighing them over and over in your head, reduces analysis paralysis and makes the decision less driven by emotion. This is the basic idea of classic decision theory (decisional balance, Janis & Mann). That sleeping on a decision before locking it in has strong quantified experimental support in itself is not established, but it rests on sleep giving thoughts time to settle and dampening conclusions drawn in the heat of emotion.
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