If you want to think about decision-making, there's sort of like three key aspects to it.

The position you find yourself in, can you manage your defaults, and then can you think

independently?

And you can't think independently unless you have the first two.

It's counterintuitive, but you have to go a little bit slower.

You have to think long-term instead of short-term.

I have this saying that a lack of patience changes the outcome.

Often we know how to get exactly what we want, and we know what it takes to get what

we want, but we think we can speed that up.

To have ever felt paralyzed when facing an important decision, the sheer number of choices

and variables and potential outcomes can make it feel impossible to chart the right course.

But what if making better decisions didn't have to be so mystifying?

What if small tweaks to how we approach problems could lead to extraordinary results?

My guest today, Shane Parish, has devoted his career to studying how we make decisions,

as the founder of Farnham Street, the host of the Knowledge Project podcast, and a claimed

author of the new book, Clear Thinking, turning ordinary moments into extraordinary results.

Shane has helped everyone from icons of industry, finance, and sports to parents, freelancers,

and beyond, improve their ability to think more clearly to make better decisions and

get better results.

And Shane's deep interest in this field started in an unusual way.

After getting his dream job in Canadian intelligence just before 9-11, Shane found himself making

life or death decisions in his 20s that affected countless lives in very real high stakes

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