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Learn decision making skills using animated parable stories.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(28 ratings)
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Learn decision making skills using animated parable stories.

For businessmen & corporate managers. Improve your critical thinking, Problem solving ability & avoid emotional hijacks
Created byPrasad Rajagopalan, Kedar Bhole
Last updated 3/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • 1. How to consciously shift from system 1 way of thinking & decision making to system 2 way of thinking & decision making
  • 2. How to use mental Models to improve decision making
  • 3. How to identify the cognitive biases that affect our decision making and eliminate it.
  • 4. How to use the 90 second rule to prevent getting emotionally hijacked
  • 5. How to use our physiology, breathing, to get emotional & cognitive coherence. And improve thinking & decision making ability
  • 6. How to us creative visualization to improve decision making ability

Course content

3 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 36m total length

  • Why it is important to learn decision making skills?3:38

    If you keep thinking the same thoughts, producing the same emotions and performing the same actions, you will continue to live by the same experiences.

  • Understanding our thinking & decision making process. System 1 & 2.9:21

    Why the System one got evolved?

    How does system 1 operate?

    When is system 1 useful?

    When is system 2 harmful?

  • How system 1 works using a parable story “Man using a hammer to kill a fly"6:40

    How the system one decision making process works?

    What is the difference between emotions & feelings?

    What are feelings?

    What are the basic emotions & feelings?

    What are the key neurotransmitters & hormones associated with the key emotions?

  • Using the parable story “Man using a hammer to kill a fly” as an analogy3:40

    An external stimuli is felt by our sense organs. The sensation triggers our thoughts...the thought lead us to experience an emotion & a feeling. Resulting in a decision being made. The Decision leads to consequences.

  • Using parable “Man using a hammer...” understand how to use the 90 second rule.5:29

    How To consciously shift from our default system 1 mode of thinking to system 2 mode of thinking using the 90 sec rule & the 5 Whys method.

  • Using parable “Man using a hammer to kill a fly” to understand cognitive bias6:52

    Our automatic harmful decision making formulas are called cognitive bias.

    Every one of us carry lot of cognitive biases unless we are aware of it we will keep taking wrong decisions.


  • Using Parable “Man using a hammer to kill a fly” to understand Mental Models.4:40

    Mental Models help us simplify the complexities. It will help us reason why certain aspects of the problem are more important than others. Mental models are a way of understanding the problem better…hence it is considered The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions

  • How to use our physiology (breathing & meditation) to make better decisions?7:26

    More control we have on our Physiology more control we will have on our emotions. More control we have on our emotions better will be our decision making ability.

  • How to us creative visualizations (Psycho cybernetics) to make better decisions?3:42

    The key is that our brains & our mind do not overly distinguish between imagination and reality.

    Creating visualizations of success leads the brain & subconscious mind to automatically correct our actions towards reaching success.

    This psycho cybernetic system is why visualization is often successful and the self-fulfilling prophecy often occurs.

  • How to internalize learnings?1:51

    Assignment to do.

  • Why continuous practice is important & critical to change our habit?1:48

    Practice, Practice, Practice...

  • Reminding yourself that you are not your emotions1:51

    Transforming oneself

Requirements

  • You realize that decision is a key skill to be an effective manager & entrepreneur. It saves time, fosters respect, motivates people, prevents conflict and increases productivity. If you want to change for the better join the course.

Description

The Most common decision making technique thought to us is:

Identify the situation/problem, gather information, identify alternatives, weigh the evidence, choose the action, get feedback & make the changes.

But this doesn’t teach us

How our emotions & feelings influence our decision making.

How our cognitive biases (automatic decision making formulas) influence our decision making.

How our physiology influences our decision making.

This course will help you identify the basic process of decision making.

How we think, leading to how we feel, leading to how our body reacts and leading to how we act.

Understand the many elements which influence our decision making process.

From stimuli to thoughts to emotions plus feelings to physiological changes in the body to we taking an action and the consequences.

The two types of thinking and decision making systems we all use.

System one (Fast, Unconscious, automatic, effortless & without self-awareness)

and System two (slow, deliberate, conscious, effortful & controlled mental process)

You will learn many tips & techniques on how to consciously shift from system one to system two. Like:

The 90 second rule

The 5 whys method

Recognizing cognitive bias

Using mental models

Using physiology &

Using creative visualization.

At the end of the course your decision making capability will substantially improve.

You will be able to take more conscious decisions.

No more emotional hijacks. (You end up taking a decision and then wonder why you did that!)

You would all agree the outcome of our life is dependent on the many decisions we take. Our decision to choose a particular formal education, our career path, company we join for work, person we decide to marry, our investments, our risks, our decisions while playing a particular sport...

But unfortunately neither in our schools or college we are formally thought the skill of decision making. We are left on our own to figure it out, by trial & error, as we stumble & steady ourselves in our life journey.

As I traversed through life many a time I have looked back with a remorse “why did I take that decision?”

I started to explore the science of decision making. The psychology & the neuroscience. What are the key factors involved in the decision making process?

Is our decision making purely driven by our instinct?

Have we any control over it?

Can we consciously change the way we think & decide and thereby the outcomes?

The discovery process was exciting.

It was like a street smart cricketer or soccer player, joining a coaching camp and discovering that there is scientific way to hold the bat and kick the ball! It doesn’t have to be trial & error.

And I am excited to share the same.

This course has been designed to give you a comprehensive view of the decision making system. Once you become conscious of the many factors involved in our decision making process the decisions you will make would be a conscious one and not instinctive.And as you keep practicing the tips & techniques taught you will become better and better.

Who this course is for:

  • This course has been designed for entrepreneurs. Business owners of small scale enterprises. You can improve your decision making and also use the learnings to improve the decision capability of your team.
  • Corporate executives would also immensely benefit. You might be aware of Google’s Project Oxygen. A research to determine what makes a manager great at Google. They identified ten behaviours that are common among their highest performing managers. Most of these behaviors are soft skills and utilized more emotional intelligence than computer or systems training. This course will help you understand the role emotions play in our decision making process. And prevent getting emotionally hijacked.
  • This course will also help corporate trainers, Learning & development managers and Human Resources managers to understand how to use parables. According to Dr. Kenneth Yates, Professor of Clinical Education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, “Analogies increase learning by about 35%”. “Use analogies when possible in training but always when we teach novel and complex processes” (The first important behavior listed in Project Oxygen was “The person is a good Coach”.)
  • I would recommend students to do this course to improve their decision making skills. Be it in the field of sports or choosing a career or deciding on a relationship the skills would be of immense help.
  • Lastly I would recommend parents who have kids between 10 to 16 years to do the course and share the learnings with their children.

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