Should I Read This Book?

This section sets the stage for understanding the importance of decision-making in our lives and introduces the reader to the book’s purpose and structure.

Chapter 1: Understanding the Foundations of Decision-Making

Establishes the fundamental principles of decision-making and its significance in our lives, building the foundation for improved decision-making.

Chapter 2: Daily Decisions Making, Habits and Routines: The Automatic System

This chapter explores the role of automatic processes and habits in shaping our decision-making patterns, helping readers consider their habits when making decisions.

Chapter 3: The ACC and the Struggling Moment

This chapter focuses on understanding the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and its influence on our decision-making processes, given the reader’s specific knowledge of their decision-making tendencies.

Chapter 4: Selecting Solutions to Make Progress Again: The Deliberate Decision System

Introduces readers to the Deliberate decision-making pathway and its importance in achieving life progress, giving them a clear path to better decision-making.

Chapter 5: Down-regulation and the Return to Old Habits

This chapter examines strategies for managing down-regulation in the decision-making pathway; the critical controls the reader will learn determine decision-making progress.

Chapter 6: Providing The ACC With What It Needs

You have met the decision-making boss; now, find out what the ACC needs to do its job better and make decisions with more significant effect, speed, and accuracy.

Chapter 7: The DDMP Step by Step

Analyzes every stage of the DDMP and clarifies its meaning and goal. Get the essential actions to increase your control over moving forward with decisions.

Chapter 8: The Deliberate Pathway: Constructing a Decision

Examines the measurable outputs of the DDMP and their impact on decision-making outcomes, enabling the decision-maker to monitor their progress.

Chapter 9: Impact of Age and Development on Decision-Making

Explains how age and developmental stages affect the capacity for making decisions. The reader will identify their age-related tendencies and those of others who require assistance

Chapter 10: Developing Skills to Make Better Decisions

Gives the reader the program’s aims of learning to make better decisions, offers techniques for developing decision-making abilities, and encourages development over time.

Chapter 11: Assisted Decision-Making

Extending the idea that people learn better when they use tools, it explores different decision-making tools and how to select the most suitable ones for specific situations, helping the reader select the best tool for the job.

Chapter 12: Decisions, Tools, Learning and Plasticity

Examines the use of decision-making tools to promote learning and cognitive flexibility and the elements of ideal learning to reduce learning time.

Chapter 13: Foundational Tools for Better Decision-Making

Considers the role of regular needs assessment and decision-making knowledge testing as a robust structure for optimizing learning to make better decisions.

Chapter 14: Using QuickSTEPS for Everyday Decisions

Follow the Smith family’s journey in making better daily decisions tailored to different age groups.

Chapter 15: Using the DIY DDM Tool for Deliberate Decision-Making

Explores how Deliberate decision-making can guide significant life direction decisions across different ages and the best tools for the job.