You're listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 281.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the savvy painter podcast.

Super excited to be with you this week.

Hello, hello, hello. So today I want to talk about trusting

your own decisions and most importantly, I think at least, is making that a habit. That is something that I've been working on for a long time now and it has been hugely impactful.

So I wanted to share this with you. And if you had asked me a few years ago if I trust my decisions, I probably

would have thought about it for a while before answering. I would have been thinking back on my past decisions,

like the big ones and the small ones to gather evidence for whether or not I

thought that I made a good decision in those instances.

So just looking at that, number one, I would not have as a habit said, yeah, I think I'd make good decisions.

I would have had to stop and really think about it and look back for evidence for it.

And where I would go to for that evidence

would be the outcome of the decision.

That's how I would have decided, I think,

if I had made a call that was quote unquote good because I like the way it turned out or

if the decision that I made was bad because I didn't like the way that it turned

out. But what I've learned is making a good decision isn't about the outcome, and I don't think I had ever really considered that. So I would base my entire assessment on my thoughts about the results.

Did I get what I wanted?

If yes, then of course I made a good decision.

If no, I did not make a good decision.

Back when I lived in Mammoth,

I listened to an audiobook by the poker player Annie Duke.

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