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Stick to your strengths. 0.900

👤 Dr. Byers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Stick to your strengths

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8 months ago
We can’t really do more than one thing at a time, experts say. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Experts say people cannot do more than one thing at a time

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8 months ago
Most of us avoid boredom if we can, Dr. Byers explained, and multitasking is a reliable way to ward it off. 0.900

👤 Dr. Byers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Multitasking is a reliable way to ward off boredom

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8 months ago
The best way to make decisions may be by combining maximiser and satisficer tendencies. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Combining maximizer and satisficer tendencies may be the best way to make decisions

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8 months ago
Aristotle wrote of 'the golden mean' – in this case, the right amount of deliberation. 0.900

👤 Schwartz 📋 Article 🏷️ Historical , Psychology

Simplified: Aristotle wrote of the golden mean in this case the right amount of deliberation

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8 months ago
Look at all the options and study decisions that will greatly impact your life. 0.900

👤 Preston 📋 Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Look at all options and study decisions that will greatly impact your life

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8 months ago
The best general advice is to avoid impulsive decisions and to avoid feeling the need to look at every option. 0.900

👤 Schwartz 📋 Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: The best general advice is to avoid impulsive decisions and avoid feeling the need to look at every option

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8 months ago
People who are too impulsive should be less so, and people who are too deliberative should be less so. 0.900

👤 Schwartz 📋 Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: People who are too impulsive should be less so and people who are too deliberative should be less so

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8 months ago
On paper, their decisions may look like the most logical or efficient, since they've spent so much time deliberating possibilities and potential results. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Maximisers' decisions may look like the most logical or efficient because they spend much time deliberating possibilities and potential results

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8 months ago
The process of deliberating and choosing one option after seriously considering others is not only very time-consuming, but also associated with post-decision regret and counterfactual thinking," says... 0.950

👤 Sally Maitlis 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Sally Maitlis says deliberating and choosing one option after seriously considering others is time-consuming and associated with post-decision regret...

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8 months ago
They make decisions faster, weigh fewer choices and go with their gut. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Satisficers make decisions faster weigh fewer choices and go with their gut

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8 months ago
Instead of the ‘best’ choice, they're fine with what's acceptable. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Satisficers are fine with what is acceptable instead of the best choice

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8 months ago
The term combines the words 'satisfy' and 'suffice' and was first coined back in the 1950s by American psychologist Herbert Simon. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: The term satisfice combines the words satisfy and suffice and was first coined in the 1950s by Herbert Simon

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8 months ago
They want to maximise the outcome, so they lose a lot of time in the process. 0.900

👤 Stephanie Preston 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Maximisers want to maximize the outcome so they lose a lot of time in the process

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8 months ago
They also rely less on outside sources, meaning they’re less likely to scour online reviews, or get as much information as possible when making decisions. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Satisficers rely less on outside sources when making decisions

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8 months ago
These are people who "have trouble making decisions because they're trying to get it perfectly right", says Stephanie Preston, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. 0.950

👤 Stephanie Preston 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Stephanie Preston says maximisers have trouble making decisions because they are trying to get it perfectly right

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8 months ago
Each comes with benefits and drawbacks – including impacting how happy you are. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Each decision-maker type comes with benefits and drawbacks including impacting how happy you are

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8 months ago
There are two main types of decision-makers, experts say. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Experts say there are two main types of decision-makers

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8 months ago
People tend to lean toward one of two categories: 'maximisers', who want to ensure they get the most out of the choices they make; and 'satisficers', who tend to adopt a ‘this is good enough’ approach... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: People tend to lean toward two categories maximisers and satisficers

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8 months ago
Shifting when it serves you, though, will make you more effective. 0.900

👤 Dr. Ballard 📋 News Article 🏷️ Psychology

Simplified: Shifting when it serves you will make you more effective

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8 months ago