{"id":54182,"date":"2021-11-02T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=54182"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:44:04","slug":"objective-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/objective-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Core Principles of Objective Decision-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why is objective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a> important? How do you make objective decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/objective-decision-making-2\/\">Objective decision-making<\/a> is important because it helps you focus on verifiable facts and embrace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/contrarian-thinking\/\">contrary thinking<\/a> that may be more correct than the prevailing wisdom. You can always stay objective by recognizing that it&#8217;s easy to delude yourself, readily entertaining other opinions, and being willing to destroy your favorite ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on to discover the 3 steps to objective decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On Rationality and Decision-Making<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked to describe himself in one word, Charlie Munger chose \u201crational.\u201d He knows he\u2019s subject to the same biases affecting all other humans, and he\u2019s trained himself to recognize when the biases are active and how to limit their damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Secrets to Objective Decision-Making<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/make-better-decisions\/\">make better decisions<\/a>, you need to seek truth<\/strong>\u2014what is really happening in the world, not what you <em>want <\/em>to believe is happening. Recognizing the truth is often painful\u2014it may go against your prior beliefs or desires, but recognizing reality is better than deluding yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the three steps to objective decision-making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, <strong>recognize that it\u2019s very easy to delude yourself<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cWhat a man wishes, he will believe.\u201d\u2014Demosthenes<\/li><li>\u201cNever fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool.\u201d\u2014Richard Feynman<\/li><li>\u201cHow many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn\u2019t make it a leg.\u201d\u2014Abraham Lincoln<\/li><li>\u201cApply logic to help avoid fooling yourself. Charlie will not accept anything I say just because I say it, although most of the world will.\u201d\u2014Warren Buffett<\/li><li>\u201cA new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.&#8221;\u2014Max Planck<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, <strong>you should readily entertain other opinions<\/strong>. Objective decision-making requires that you deliberately consider arguments of the other side. In fact, try to state the other side\u2019s opinions better than they can themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Resist the tendency to accept only information that confirms your prior beliefs and to reject information that contradicts it (also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/confirmation-bias-definition-2\/\">confirmation bias<\/a>).<\/li><li>If you don\u2019t take up these practices, you\u2019ll find that you automatically reject ideas you disagree with. This is a dangerous habit you need to train yourself out of.<\/li><li>Example: Munger cites \u201c[CBS head] Paley was a god. But he didn\u2019t like to hear what he didn\u2019t like to hear, and people soon learned that. So they told Paley only what he liked to hear. Therefore, he was soon living in a little cocoon of unreality and everything else was corrupt.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, after considering other viewpoints, <strong>you should readily change your mind<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Be willing to destroy your favorite ideas<\/strong>. Munger says that any year he doesn\u2019t destroy one of his beloved ideas is a wasted year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cFaced with the choice of changing one\u2019s mind and between proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.\u201d\u2014John Kenneth Galbraith<\/li><li>\u201cBoth Warren and I are very good at changing our prior conclusions. We work at developing that facility because, without it, disaster often comes.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Be aware that strong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/cognitive-heuristics\/\">psychological biases<\/a> are in place that prevent you from mastering objective decision-making. The next chapter in the guide will cover his 25 psychological biases. Here are a few notable ones that distort the truth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Denial: Be willing to admit that you\u2019re wrong. Denying the truth doesn\u2019t make it any less real.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/commitment-and-consistency-principle\/\">Consistency bias<\/a>: Don\u2019t entrench in your beliefs simply because you\u2019ve held them for a long time. This is related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-avoid-the-sunk-cost-fallacy\/\">sunk cost<\/a> fallacy\u2014don\u2019t throw good money after bad simply because you\u2019re unwilling to change your mind.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-incentive-meaning-and-definition-economics\/\">Incentive<\/a> bias: If you have an incentive to believe a certain way, then you\u2019re likely to be biased toward that belief.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Another famed investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/who-is-ray-dalio\/\">Ray Dalio<\/a> is also well known for his philosophy on objective decision-making and aggressively seeking the truth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/principles-life-and-work\/1-page-summary\">Read our guide to his book <em>Principles<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is objective decision-making important? How do you make objective decisions? Objective decision-making is important because it helps you focus on verifiable facts and embrace contrary thinking that may be more correct than the prevailing wisdom. You can always stay objective by recognizing that it&#8217;s easy to delude yourself, readily entertaining other opinions, and being willing to destroy your favorite ideas. 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