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When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally try and keep it simple: “I help people with their relationship problems.” That work takes a number of different forms – sometimes, it means helping a couple put their relationship back together when it’s been damaged. Or, I may be working with someone who wants to learn how to change the things they are doing that keep them from having fulfilling relationships and how their past experience influences ...

Big Think is a great site for learning more about different ideas and some of the new knowledge we’re developing in different areas, I enjoy it a lot.

Recently, they posted this article about a new book on decision making from a Nobel Prize-winning Psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking Fast & Slow“.

Essentially, it explores our two different mental systems – “fast thinking” and “slow thinking”.

“According to Kahneman, there are very few circumstances in which system ...

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We live in a fast-paced world where just about everyone seems to be concerned about how to get more done in less time. While there are a lot of great ways to be more efficient, shortcutting your decision making process is not one of them. (Shrinking your to-do list, on the other hand, is a great tool, but that’s a subject for another post.)

It can be tempting to rush the decision-making process, but it’s often a bad deal in the ...

I read an interesting article yesterday in PsyBlog.  It discussed a recent research study which indicated that we do better making fast, complex decisions when we ‘go with our gut’. They cite examples of firefighters and surgeons as people who need to make split-second decisions with life or death implications.  I have no doubt that in situations such as these where someone has been properly trained, this is exactly the way to ...