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How To Make Life's Biggest Decisions - Abby Davisson - #603

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Abby Davisson is an author, social innovation leader and career development expert whose research focuses on decision making in money management and romance. There are some big decisions we all need to make. What job to take, what city to live in, whether to get married or divorced or have kids. Having a prescriptive formula for this might seem impossible, but Abby helped run the most popular course at Stanford on exactly this topic, and today we get to find out what she's discovered. Expect to learn what the most common biggest single mistake that Abby has discovered in her research, how to use logic in romantic decisions without killing the romance, how to speak to your parents about care as they get older, the biggest mistakes that all people make when it comes to major decisions, if you should get a prenup agreement and much more... Sponsors: Get $100 discount on the best water filter on earth from AquaTru at https://bit.ly/drinkwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Go to my sponsor https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:48) What’s Wrong with our Decision Making? (05:02) Making Decisions on Limited Information (09:52) Principles for Effective Communication (15:16) The Financial Aspect of Finding a Partner (23:17) Romantic Decisions in a World of Unlimited Options (35:11) Advice for Couples who Struggle to Communicate (39:20) Most Common Life Decision Regrets (43:47) How to Know if a Relationship Should End (49:45) Choosing Where to Live (53:29) Considering Elderly Care (1:01:01) Where to Find Abby Extra Stuff: Buy Abby's Book - https://amzn.to/3ZU5X44  Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Abby Davison, she's an author,

0:05.7

social innovation leader and career development expert, whose research focuses on decision-making

0:10.3

in money management and romance. There are some big decisions we all need to make,

0:15.9

what job to take, what city to live in, whether to get married or divorced or have kids.

0:20.7

Having a prescriptive formula for this might seem impossible, but Abby helped run the most

0:26.1

popular course at Stanford on exactly this topic, and today we get to find out what she's discovered.

0:32.0

Expect to learn what the most common single mistake that Abby has discovered in her research is,

0:36.8

how to use logic in romantic decisions without killing the romance, how to speak to your parents

0:41.9

about care as they get older, the biggest mistakes that all people make when it comes to major

0:46.3

decisions, if you should get a prenup agreement, and much more. In other news, this episode is

0:53.3

brought to you by Aquatru. A couple of weeks ago, I said I was going to try Aquatru, and if it was

0:58.4

crap, I was going to tell you, and I have tried it for nearly a month, and it's fantastic, it's

1:03.2

absolutely awesome. Aquatru is a four stage reverse osmosis purification for water. They've got

1:09.7

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1:15.6

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1:20.4

free countertop purifiers, which is what I've got, and high capacity, under-sync options,

1:25.1

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1:30.0

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1:36.0

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1:42.2

plus many more. This is something I'm huge on at the moment. The quality of the water that I'm

1:46.9

drinking is absolutely massive. 60% of your body is water, and the water quality that you are

1:52.5

probably drinking in a metropolitan municipal city area is not good. One set of filters from Aquatru

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