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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 195 with Michael Nicholas.

Michael is talking decision-making and you're going to walk away learning one

the tremendous power of continually making the optimal decision.

2. The science behind how we make decisions.

3. Keys to improving your decision making.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the

links to items that we reference, you'll find that over at awesome at your

job.com slash eep 195. Now here's Michael.

Michael, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

Hi, it's a pleasure to be here.

Well, I am excited to be talking about decision-making with you and you'd mentioned that in your own life of career

and decision making you had a bit of a flip-flop what's the story there?

Yeah well one of the interesting things about our decisions is that we tend to think of ourselves as rational, don't we?

So some of our most difficult decisions, we like to do these pros and cons lists and make this

decision that seems to be explainable and make sense.

And I like to think back to when I was at school and I have some career advice from an advisor that came into the school who seemed to think that I was well suited to be a teacher.

And I've got to say that was as diametrically opposite to our plan for my life and I say our plan deliberately,

which I'll explain in a moment as it really could have been and seemed

ridiculous to be quite honest and I went on to be an engineer like my father. I did many things

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