Give Yourself a Nudge : Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions

Decision-making is the best way to actively improve anything in your personal and professional life, or in any business or organization. This book presents and illustrates several fundamental ideas and offers procedures that nudge you to improve your decision-making skills and guide you to make smarter decisions.

The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make. This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and ultimately nudges you toward smarter decisions. These nudges frame more desirable decisions for you to face by identifying the objectives for your decisions and generating superior alternatives to those initially considered. All of the nudges are based on psychology and behavioral economics research and are accessible to all readers. The new concept of a decision opportunity is introduced, which involves creating a decision that you desire to face. Solving a decision opportunity improves your life, whereas resolving a decision problem only restores the quality of your life to that before the decision problem occurred. We all can improve our decision-making and reap the better quality of life that results. This book shows you how.