Decisiveness is great, until it isn't. Sometimes the best thing you can do is be willing to think your first instinct might be wrong.
Trait ambivalence sounds like a bad thing, but not when it causes you to seek more information and see both sides of an issue. Do you tend to take longer than other people to make a decision? Let’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I had a friend in college who could not order at a restaurant without asking what everyone else was getting first. She wasn't ...
Do you ever get flustered when deciding what to eat for dinner? Some people might call you indecisive, but turns out, your struggle to make a decision actually means when you make one, it's the smart ...
It’s one of the questions I’m asked most often… What if I choose wrong? People are so freaked out about making the wrong choice. Traveling down the wrong road. “Wasting” time, money, energy on the ...
Humans are required to make several decisions daily, from choosing what to eat at a restaurant to more crucial choices, such as the studies they wish to complete. Behavioral scientists and ...
Coffee or tea? Break up or stay together? Look for a new job or stay put? We're constantly confronted with choices, both big and small. In fact, research shows we make a staggering 35,000 decisions ...
If we don’t have options, we feel stuck. If we have too many options, we can also feel stuck. That’s why it’s called the paradox of choice. Some people agonize over making the “right” choice, while ...