What you see is the last chapter of the book distilled and peppered up with comments of mine. Nothing quite new, just a good bottom line with some remarks to keep that thing up for a while.
1. Whenever possible, consider alternative hypotheses.
Think beyond and against your assumptions.
2. Reframe the question.
Think above the plain language, detect second/third/fourth semantic layers and hidden messages.
Negate, ignore or discount immediately firing associations and impulses, as those are noise and/or manipulations.
Negate, ignore or discount "the first impression" whatsoever.
3. Always remember that correlation does not entail causation.
Purely statistical one.
4. Never forget the size of your sample.
Purely statistical one.
5. Anticipate your own impulsivity and pre-commit.
Avoid impulsive actions: your habits should not emerge as a result of short-term decisions.
6. Don't just set goals. Make contingency plans.
Plan for balancing the ancestral brain impulses before the impulses emerge. If ancestral and neocortex tend to diverge on some matter, try to find a way to reintegrate and stay productive.
7. Whenever possible, don't make important decisions when you are tired or have other things on your mind.
Devote some of the most productive time for daily/weekly planning.
8. Always weigh benefits against costs.
Dupe of #1, mostly, with an extra recommendation of valuation, not only context-jiggling.
9. Imagine that your decisions may be spot-checked.
Oh that's nice. Speak out/write down your decisions and goals. Nothing as productive as this could have been invented.
10. Distance yourself.
Yeah, Eternal is elusive, the Moment is mesmerizing. Compensate for that.
Check and architect your happines/pleasure feedbacks: remember that not all which is pleasant is beneficial, prevent hacking your feedbacks for no reason, compensate your impulses for misfiring, addictions and adaptations.
Also keep in mind that somatic and immune systems are heavily hard-wired witn ancestral brain: so positive emotions do matter, secure access to some of your pleasure triggers for that reason.
11. Beware the vivid, the personal, and the anecdotal.
Integrate your emotional reasoning into decision process, but track which kind and quality of reasoning you stick to.
12. Pick your spots.
Keep priorities, don't spend much time/brainpower on decisions with little impact.
13. Try to be rational.
Some overgeneralization of #11. Personally me thinks that non-rational inference is as much as important and beneficial as scientific/rational. We just need to be aware as to what type of approach we use at the moment for a given task.
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