The ability to make good decisions quickly is key, whether you’re a seasoned leader or an entry-level employee. It’s a skill that inspires confidence in your abilities and leads to success. Shelley Row, an expert in efficient decision-making, says the secret is listening to your intuition while incorporating facts, a combination she calls “infotuition.” “Infotuition is a practical leadership tool,” she explains. “It’s a skilled, self-aware, decision-making approach—not a willy-nilly use of the whim.” She shares her advice for listening to your gut, and making smarter decisions as a result. The Skill Set: 5 Ways to Make Better, Faster Decisions CONSIDER INTUITION PART OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE “We honor thinking, but tend to underplay (or even denigrate) feeling,” says Shelley. In reality, neuroscience shows that intuition is an essential part of thinking. “It’s as though your brain stores bits of your life experience in file folders, but the ones you rarely use are in dusty file cabinets in the back,” she explains. “Intuition—a nagging gut feeling—is information from one of those dusty file folders trying to get through. We have to let it in by quieting the loud, logical voice and attending to the quiet, wise voice in our heads.” END YOUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH DATA Or at least put it in perspective. “It is inherently backward-looking,” says Shelley. “If the future differs from the past, data must be viewed with caution.” It’s also subject to bias. “Methods of collection, analysis and interpretation provide opportunities for bias to creep in despite best intentions,” she says. “Don’t get me wrong. Data is an important thing; it’s just not the only thing.” GATHER INFORMATION, THEN TAKE A BREAK It’s not a coincidence that your best ideas occur to you when you’re in the shower or drifting off to sleep. “When we overwhelm ourselves with activity—and who doesn’t?—the brain can’t put all the pieces together, it just gets tired,” Shelley explains. “When faced with a complex decision, review the data, gather input from the right people, particularly those with differing opinions, then take a brain break, something that distracts the mind and lets it wander. The brain continues to work on the problem during the downtime, allowing it to pick up subtle signals from the dusty file folders.” WATCH OUT FOR OVERTHINKING Shelley advises looking out for these phrases: “We’ve been over this again and again,” “This is taking waaay too long” and “We’re making this harder than it has to be.” They’re key indicators that you and your team are overthinking the problem. “When this happens,” advises Shelley, “take a step back and notice the nagging feeling that holds you back.” EXPLORE YOUR GUT FEELINGS Ask yourself, “What’s bugging me?” or “What’s not sitting right?” Shelley explains that these questions coax the brain to identify the underlying gut feel, and that it usually points to either fear or insight. If it’s fear, she suggests talking yourself through it, by asking yourself, “What am I afraid of?” “What would happen if I let go of that fear?” “What would I be freed up to do?” If it’s not fear, it may be insight, which Shelley defines as, “some part of your experience that wants to weigh in on the decision.”
聪明人的10大特征，你具备了么？ 1. They don't talk as much as you, because they know they got smart by listening. 他们不会说太多，因为他们知道多听才能变聪明。 2. They know lots of things other than what they're specialised in. Theirs is the gift of a broad mind, constantly fed with the stimulant of being interested in what everyone else is doing. 除去专业知识之外，他们知道的很多。他们的天赋就是思维活跃，总是对其他人在做的事情充满好奇和兴趣。 3. They juggle home, work and personal interests with dexterity and never fall back on the tired old refrain about "work life balance". And when they're juggling, they somehow manage to seem 100% engaged with what they're doing, on all fronts simultaneously, even though you know they're taking appropriate steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are perfectly, serenely balanced. 他们把家庭、工作和个人兴趣完美平衡，从来不会为“平衡工作和生活”这样的事情伤脑筋。当他们玩的时候，似乎会全身心的投入在这件事上面，他们面面俱到，虽然你很清楚，其实背后他们努力的走好每一步来让生活更加完美、更加平衡。 4. They probably do social media. Not always, but probably. It is not only another chance to listen, but one they use to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise wouldn't have come across. 也许他们会涉足社交媒体。不是一贯如此，只是有可能而已。这也是另外一个倾听的机会，但他们往往关注的是那些从没有经历过的事情。 5. Even when things go very badly wrong, they'll be smiling. Smart people never get ruffled because their smart brains present them with alternatives faster than the bad stuff can happen. 即使事情发展很糟糕，他们也会面带微笑。聪明的人永远不会被打倒，他们的大脑永远都会在坏事发生之前，火速想好其他的解决方案。 6. They know they are usually the smartest person in the room, but they don't spend their time dwelling on that. Instead, they take it as a personal challenge to see if they can make everyone else the smartest person in the room too. 他们知道自己是屋子里最聪明的人，但不会花时间去沾沾自喜。相反，他们会把这当做对自己的挑战：看他们是不是能把屋子里的其他人也变得一样的聪明。 7. If they are managers, they will make every effort to get people smarter, more connected and more popular than them in their teams. They're not threatened because they know that smartness is synergistic. They also make sure that their smart people get to look smarter than them for the same reason. 如果他们是经理级别的人物，他们会努力让别人在整个团队中看上去比他们还要聪明、亲密和受欢迎。他们不会感到威胁，因为聪明有相互促进的作用。同理，他们也会确保这些聪明人看起来更聪明。 8. They have hidden skills that never get rolled out until they're needed. They don't have any need to show their full capabilities for reasons of proving they're better than others. 不到万不得已，他们不会展现出自己的所有技能，无需仅仅为了证明自己比别人厉害而去秀自己的能力。 9. They may or may not have expensive educations. You'd never know, just by being with them unless you had their CV in front of you. 他们也许没有受到非常高端的教育，除非看到他们的简历，否则你永远都无从得知。 10. They never, ever, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even though it would be easy to do so. They've learnt through bitter experience that the only thing that happens when you make someone look bad is you look bad yourself. 在任何情况下，他们绝对绝对不会让你看起来很愚笨，哪怕这是件轻而易举的事情。因为从过去的教训中他们学到的是，让别人出丑的唯一结果就是自己也出丑。 Now you should know who the smart people are. If you want to be the smart one, let me give you this extra advice from Steve Jobs "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." 现在你应该知道谁才是聪明人了吧。如果你想变得聪明，再送你一句话，就是乔帮主那句经典的名言：“求知若饥，虚心若愚”。
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