101: Optimal Decision-Making with Pat McDaniel
Pat McDaniel shares some of his wisest insights about decision-making fallacies and victories.
You’ll Learn:
- A 5-step process to better decision making
- Unexpected hidden influences that affect your decision making
- How to maintain an openness to contrary information
About Pat
Pat McDaniel is the founder of WiseInsights.net a website dedicated to helping motivated but weary people keep moving forward by finding the smartest path toward their success. Pat is passionate about sharing his story about how he kept hitting the wall, got mad, and was eventually ready to change how he made decisions, so that he could be on the right path.
Pat has a highly diverse background. He has been a long-time student (made it through the 19th grade) a CPA, a pastor and church planter, a sales manager, a search engine marketing strategist working in a marketing agency, an entrepreneur who started his own business from scratch, and an author of the Ebook: 5 Step Process to Making Better More Successful Decisions.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: wiseinsights.net
- Ebook: 5 Step Process to Making Better More Successful Decisions by Pat McDaniel
- Infographic: 50 Cognitive Biases Wrecking Your Decisions
- Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Book: Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Book: Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini
- Book: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Book: Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath
- Book: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Book: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Book: Give and Take by Adam Grant
- Book: Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
- Book: Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
- App: Alarmed
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