4 Unusual Psychology Tricks to Make Better Decisions At ANY AGE
These Tricks Might Rewire Your Brain for Better Decisions
Decision-making is a mix of logic and emotions.
Some choices are easy. Coffee or tea? Other choices feel like they could break your entire life. Should you quit your job? Move across the country? Invest in cryptocurrency even though you still don’t fully understand how they work.
So, here are five psychology tricks that might actually help.
Save Your Time
Simulate Your Decision – Pretend you've already chosen one option, then switch. One will feel right, the other won’t.
Use the 10/10/10 Rule – Will this decision matter in 10 minutes, 10 months, or 10 years? Most things that feel huge right now won’t even register later.
Let Your Brain Decide for You – Write down everything, then go for a walk, take a nap, or shower your subconscious will figure it out (Maybe).
Look at Where People Are Looking – Watch what people do, not what they say. If the ones you respect are moving in a certain direction, there’s a reason.
1. Simulate Your Decision Before Making It
So, our minds are absolutely terrible at guessing what’s going to make it happy. This is why people plan a vacation for six months and then end up spending half of it standing in long lines, wondering why they even left the house.
Pretend you've decided on one thing for a week and see how that makes you feel. Then do the same with the other option. It changes everything.
What happens next is weirdly effective. One option will probably start feeling comfortable. The other might itch a little, in a way that’s hard to ignore. That might be your answer.
2. The 10/10/10 Rule
This rule is simple, I learned this from a Reddit comment,
Ask yourself three questions:
Will I still care about this 10 minutes from now?
What about 10 months from now?
How much will it matter 10 years down the line?
Half the things that feel catastrophic right now are things you won’t even remember in a year. Some of them won’t even matter by next week.
For example, quitting your job might feel amazing in 10 minutes, but 10 months from now, you might be questioning life choices if you don’t have a backup plan. In 10 years, you probably won’t even remember the job at all.
3. Let Your Brain Work on It While You Do Absolutely Nothing
People love to think that decisions happen in the conscious part of the brain, where logic and reasoning allegedly live. Most of the time they aren’t. Most big choices get made in the background, while you’re doing things like taking a shower.
I throw all the information into my subconscious, go on a run, and wait for it to tell me what to do.
How To Use This Trick:
Write down everything—pros, cons, weird gut feelings, all of it (Make sure everything gets in your mind first).
Stop thinking about it. Do something completely unrelated. Go on a walk. Take a nap. Stare at your phone and wonder why you opened Instagram again.
At some random point probably while brushing your teeth or trying to fall asleep the answer will just show up. Like that one stray cat that decided it live with you now.
4. Watch Where People Are Looking—It Tells You Everything
When walking through a crowd, don’t look at people. Look past them to where you’re going, and they’ll get out of the way without realizing it.
Basically, people follow energy. Decide where you’re going, and others will adjust to that.
So what does this mean?
Instead of overthinking in a vacuum, look at what experienced people are actually doing, not just what they say.
Where are the people you respect looking?
What paths have they followed?
What choices led them to where they are now?
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