How To Make Decisions

[samovenstv]

Did this video help you think differently about decision making?

[maxoraofficial]

Going back to these old videos is sooo useful. Thanks for keeping them here, never delete them.

[davidbakino]

"After I watch TV, my mind is trying to problem-solve and connect the dots between the fictional characters in the different shows that I've watched,
MORE than it's trying to solve my own immediate problems" ----> Genius! That's the netfilx society we live in! People are tricked into caring about fake stories more than their own fucking life!!

[thattimestampguy]

1:46 Reduce the amount of decisions to conserve energy, a scarce resource.
• Decision Fatigue 😮‍💨
• Do Less Stuff
5:06 Sacrifice to win the game ♟
7:04 Make 1 decision that solves future decisions
9:43 Food
11:04 Have A Simple Personal Life
14:47 More Stuff = More Worries
17:50 Low Maintenance
19:38 Limit Surface Area 21:37 NOTIFICATION OVERLOAD

Part 2: Think Critically, don’t just follow the crowd
25:50
26:58 Do your own analysis 🧐
30:57 Parts that form the Whole, take what’s important, ignore what’s not important to you.

33:37 Core Principles
37:52 Look At Decision Patterns
MVP - Minimum Viable Product

Part 3 Apply To Models
47:11
49:30 Long Term 10-many years

1:04:00 TV = Wasted Time
1:06:17 Dependency and Sequencing

[gangrakar]

00:00 🛤️ Reduce Load: Making good decisions starts with reducing the number of decisions you have to make.
10:08 🗺️ Limit Surface Area: Limit the number of ways information and demands can reach you.
24:10 📞 Managing Communication Channels
25:19 🌟 Part 1: Preparing for Decision-Making
25:55 🤔 Part 2: Thinking Critically
33:17 🏆 Part 3: Applying Core Values/Principles
38:16 🔍 Part 4: Recognizing Decision Patterns
47:21 🧠 Part 5: Applying Mental Models
48:16 🌟 Setting Clear Goals
52:32 ⏳ Calculating Half-Life of Decisions
56:17 🤝 Hiring the Right People
01:01:05 🔄 Considering Second-Order Consequences
01:06:17 🏗️ Considering Dependencies and Sequencing
01:10:38 ↔️ Weighing Input and Output Symmetry
01:11:37 ⚖️ Assessing Decision Symmetry
01:14:19 🎲 Evaluating Risk and Ease of Undoing
01:19:31 📉 Countering Decision Troughs with Inverse Curves
01:22:36 🧠 Summarizing Decision-Making Principles

[diex]

Who came here from Hamza?🙋🏻‍♂️

I watched this last year, and I still got something out of it this time as my life circumstances change.

Thank you Sam! You’re the G!

[MikeOBrienMedia]

Sam, you're a very skilled critical thinker (on your entire channel, not just this video). I appreciate your perspective. Keep up the great content!

[NicoMMAbr]

And youtuber called Hamza recommended your video and I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned much from it. Thank you.

[Senecamarcus]

Its interesting that Seneca had these ideas centuries ago, thats why I love old books! People in the past had a lot of less distractions to think deep and come up with deep ideas!

[relavilrodford]

i love how this guy make's a fu*cking 1:24 hour video on making a decisions

[JeffreyMarr]

Happy birthday Sam. Thanks for telling me I can't blame where I am in life on other people like I have been.

[chbikchpok]

Thank you from Tunisia, I'm a muslim and i respect this dude a lot.

[saspry]

"(low maintenance partner is key)" BOOM! Mic drop here :) So true!!!

[lookintothesky]

Sam's wife and parents have to message him on Slack lol

[animator-k]

I cant believe this is free❤️

Much love and respect brother🤝

[florianwueest]

The free content that you're presenting Sam is just WAY above what you find in the normal "business" industry. Very good stuff!

[langris]

Here cause of Charlie Morgan, Like how teachings can be altered and made easier to understand by your desiples. Thank you

[reidrichardson]

This really takes the anxiety out of decision-making. I love how Sam simplifies everything.

[suchapolivka]

This video has a fucking ton of value!
My notes:

Reduce load

1. Make less decisions - decision fatigue
2. Do less stuff - sacrifice - like in chess - say no, more than yes
3. Make one decision that removes future decisions - same cloths every day or at least have it planned and do the same thing all the time, with food too - delivery
4. simple personal life - relationships, hobbies… - don't increase lifestyle (buying useless stuff) after getting rich
1. Low maintenance partner - love isn't ownership and there are more important things
5. Limit surface area - how are things distracting you throughout the day (notifications…) - eliminate everything and make everything as effective as possible

Think critically

1. Do your own analysis and don't copy others - question everything - if everybody else does it, it's probably the wrong thing to do - in the beginning learn from others though - copy the GOATs
1. All the successful people did something different than others and were ridiculed at the beginning
2. Don't copy the crowd - Minimum viable wedding - only do the things that actually makes sense and are important - MVP - Lean startup
3. Core principles and values - take time to define them - use them to make decisions aligned with your mission - whole company needs to know it
4. Decision patterns - analyze decisions of people (also yours) that they made long ago and look for patterns - does it lead to something great or terrible?

Apply mental models

1. Define the goal - the north start to know where you are going - all your actions must lead to this goal
2. Think long-term - decades - both in every day life and while setting goals
3. Project decision options - project where the decisions take me (if it gets me closer to my long term goal)
4. Calculate half life - When will I have to do this decision again? Can I just erase making this decision out of my life?
5. Second order consequences - make decisions that pay dividends instead of making you decay - what is going to happen after the decision was made
1. Second, third, fourth…
2. make it dramatic: If i eat this chocolate, I will get fat, which will make me dumb and sluggish, which will make me not achieve my goal and that makes my life miserable. Is it worth eating? - also use the other way around - if I worked whole day…
6. Dependencies and sequence - look at it from a longer perspective - What is the most efficient sequence of doing tasks? What projects depend on other ones (- do those first)?
7. Input and output symmetry - weigh how much you have to put in and how much you get out - ideally you input 1 and output 10
8. Risk, ease of undo - make sure that the reward and chance of achieving it outweigh the cost of failing. Also look at how difficult is to undone the decision
9. Counteract trough - start with a project that brings rewards in the short-term and then let it fuel a bigger project that brings the fruits only after a long time (Consulting.com made Skool possible and then was sold)

[mukulfauzdar]

I miss Sam's Videos more than I miss my Ex