A Guide to Making Decisions

How can you know what is behind door number two?

Photo by Author. Doors of Sicily.

Theories and models of decision-making abound, but are they any good?

I have a personal decision-making theory in my life that has NEVER failed me over the past ten years. My reason for sharing this well-guarded and successful secret is that over the past eight years, the American public has been suffering from an inability to decide what is best for them, their families, and communities.

Decision-making has gotten so awful that corporate America has unleashed a helping hand of sorts — robots that scan the work of libraries from those living and dead to concisely narrate the problem and offer simple solutions within two or three paragraphs. I find AI solutions to be as wrong as they are right — just as often as my yet-to-be-revealed mantra. They provide solutions that are often bereft of the detail needed for true success. I still believe that a YouTube video can teach me a skill faster than deciphering the half-truths of Artificial Intelligence.

The beauty of my decision-making paradigm is that it involves no mathematical analysis, no classes to sign up for or subscription fee to learn, and no advanced degree required to comprehend. I’m not here to say “I told you so” or reap any benefit from either your poor or unparalleled ability to…