We all have to make big choices in life, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when facing major decisions about careers, relationships, or personal growth. On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Rick Hanson explore how to make good choices buy developing a reliable system for making choices that aligns with your values and goals. They break down balancing analysis with intuition, the five key decision-making styles, and common obstacles that lead to poor choices. The episode also includes two live demonstrations of working through a big decision, which includes learning how to identify what you want and pursue it from a values-oriented perspective.
Key Topics:
- 0:00: Introduction
- 3:50: Analysis vs. intuition, and activities vs. results
- 10:45: Effort, values, and the environments you put yourself in
- 17:05: The five decision-making styles
- 28:50: Motives and attachment
- 33:30: Rigidity, excessive certainty, and other common pitfalls
- 42:10: Demo #1 – Reverse-engineering a career decision (or Rick with a legal pad)
- 1:04:55: Demo #2 – Deciding whether to invest deeply in a romantic relationship
- 1:18:00: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
