I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

我不是我的环境塑造出来的产物。我是我自己的选择塑造出来的产物。

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Tony Robbins

正是在你决策的瞬间,你的命运得以塑造。

你的生活的改变始于你做出一个新的、一致的和坚定的决定的那一刻。


日常决策

我在日常生活中常常对一些决策感到困扰。有时候是无法权衡利弊的犹豫不决,有时候是为了满足他人而做出违心妥协后的烦恼。

特别是从2022年开始,我不再有固定工作后,生活的常规减少了,自由增多了,这当然是我喜欢的。但也意味着我需要自己安排每天的任务和生活,这需要依赖我的独立决策能力。

除此之外,生活中的小事,例如是否购买某样东西,周末是否外出等,每一次决策也会消耗我的精力。

这种决策困难可能是“高敏感人”常见的困扰,但这种现象的本质原因在于我们的成长环境和教育体系并未培养我们的决策能力。即便如此,我们仍然可以通过后天的学习和实践来提升自己的决策能力。

A "decision" is a cognitive process that involves choosing or reaching a conclusion after evaluating various options or possibilities. It is both a mental activity and an action.

This process entails selecting a specific course of action from multiple alternatives, taking into account factors such as preferences, values, goals, available information, and anticipated outcomes.

Decisions can vary in complexity, ranging from simple, everyday choices to complex judgments that carry significant implications for individuals, organizations, or societies.

之前一起创业的一个我很欣赏的朋友,他的口头禅/座右铭就是“选择大于努力”。这句话大多数人都听过,我曾经觉得很“鸡汤”。但我也的确同意选择对一个人的深远影响。我认为,我们的人生我们的命运就是由我们每天的决策/选择所塑造的。


重复思维模式

Dr Joe Dispenza常常在他的课程和采访中说:

Our brain is a record of our past, encapsulating all we've learned and experienced. How our daily recollection of problems, tied to past emotions, keeps us living in the past.

Thinking the same thoughts leads us to make the same choices. Making the same choices leads to demonstrating the same behaviors. Demonstrating the same behaviors leads us to create the same experiences. Creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions. And those same emotions then drive the same thoughts. 20240305 身口意

我们的大脑是过去的记录,封存了我们所学到的一切和所有经历。我们每日对问题的回忆,往往与过去的情绪纠缠在一起,这使得我们总是活在过去的阴影中。重复思考相同的想法会导致我们做出相同的选择,而这些选择又会表现为一致的行为。这些行为创造了熟悉的经历,进而引发相同的情感反应,这些情感又会强化最初的思想,从而完成一个循环。

随着时间的推移,这种循环在我们心中反复出现,最终形成了我们所谓的“个性”(personality),而我们的个性塑造了我们的现实境遇(personal reality)。在这样的循环中,我们面临一个关键的选择:是要被未来的愿景所定义,还是继续被过去的记忆所束缚?

The crucial choice between being defined by future aspirations or past memories.

We are either being defined either by a vision of the future or by memories of the past

The initial discomfort of making different choices as a step towards change. The internal voices that argue against change, often rooted in past conditioning. believing in these Repetitive Thought Patterns can perpetuate our current state. Transitioning to a new self requires overcoming these mental and emotional barriers.


未来的决策

改变的旅程始于做出不同选择的初期不适。这些选择通常会挑战我们内心深处根植于过去的声音,这些声音往往会反对改变。如果我们相信这些重复的思维模式,我们就会继续维持现状。要过渡到一个新的自我,需要我们克服这些心理和情感上的障碍。

一维空间:只有长度这一个方向。可以想象成一条直线,只能在这条线上前后移动。例如:数轴

二维空间:有长度和宽度两个方向。可以想象成一个平面,如纸面。例如:地图、几何图形(如正方形、圆形)

三维空间:有长度、宽度和高度三个方向。这是我们日常生活中感知的物理世界。例如:立方体、球体、我们生活的现实世界

四维空间:在三维空间的基础上加入了时间这个维度。时间被视为第四个维度,使得我们可以描述事物在空间中随时间的变化。在这个概念中,过去、现在和未来都同时存在,只是我们在时间轴上的感知是线性的。

为了打破这一循环,我们可以尝试多维度思考。四维空间的概念告诉我们,过去、现在和未来都同时存在,只是我们在时间轴上的感知是线性的。当我们渴望某样东西时,也许是因为我们未来的自己已经拥有了它。这种思考方式能够帮助我们做出更符合长期目标和理想自我的决策,从而真正实现自我转变。

正如电影《瞬息全宇宙》中的女主角,在平行宇宙中她拥有无数种可能的生活,而正是一次次的选择,造就了她当前的命运。因此,改变我们命运的钥匙就在日常的一次次抉择中。

We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre

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正如电影《瞬息全宇宙》,女主角在平行宇宙中拥有无数种可能的生活,而正是一次次的选择,才造就了她当前的命运。因此,改变我们命运的钥匙就在日常的一次次抉择中。


Advance Decision Making (提前决策)

最近,在阅读Bob Proctor的文章《 Decision》时,有一段话引发了我的思考:

We make advanced bookings when we fly somewhere – that is quite common. We make advanced reservations to eliminate any confusion or problems when the time arrives for the journey. We do the same with renting a car, for the same reason. Think of the problems you will eliminate by making many of the decisions you must make … well in advance.  Bob Proctor

正如这段话所说,我们可以像提前订飞机票一样,提前做决策或建立一些原则。提前决策不仅可以减少内耗,避免因临时决策而产生的冲突和焦虑。此外,提前把自己的决策模型和原则写下来,可以使决策与长期价值观保持一致。如果发现问题,还可以清晰地找到记录,及时进行调整,从而提升自己的决策能力。


决策导师委员会(Board of Mentors)

Ali Abdaal 在他博客 文章 中提到,他组建了一个由3到4位自己敬仰并且足够了解的人(无论是已经去世的还是在世的)组成的心理导师委员会(Mental Board of Advisors)。他的导师委员会包括Tim Ferriss、Derek Sivers等。每当他遇到难以抉择的问题时,他就会问自己“Tim Ferriss/Derek Sivers/Naval会建议我在这种情况下怎么做”,并常常通过这种方式找到答案。

相似地,Elon Musk 也有一个早期的导师委员会(Board of Mentors),其中包括富兰克林和特斯拉。他在2012年的一次采访中提到,创业初期资源有限,他的导师主要来自于阅读名人的自传或传记。

对于普通人来说,这也是一个可行的方法。在一开始我们可能没有广泛的社交网络,但我们总是可以通过线上渠道和阅读来组建我们的导师委员会。

以下是我的关于决策的导师委员会成员及其建议:

(1)基于情绪的决策

  • Joe Hudson: Most people believe that in order to make great decisions, we must rely on reason and keep emotions out of the picture. So we write up a list of pros and cons to maximize "good" outcomes while avoiding "bad” consequences. But, as Elliot’s story shows, our feelings don’t get in the way of making great decisions — they’re an essential aspect of it. Anytime we’re stuck in a decision or find ourselves in binary thinking, it’s a sign that we’re repressing an emotion. And instead of making decisions based on what we actually want, we’re doing it based out of fear: Of feeling like a failure, being wrong, or looking bad.The way out of this isn’t through strategizing or figuring it out. Instead, the key to getting unstuck is through embracing our emotions. Once we welcome our unwanted feelings, we make decisions with far greater clarity, ease, and enjoyment. 我们的情感不仅不会妨碍我们做出伟大的决策,反而是其关键要素。任何时候我们困在一个决策中,或陷入二元思维中,这都是我们在压抑某种情感的标志。解决方法不是通过战略或思考,而是通过拥抱我们的情感。
  • Abraham Hicks: Make decisions from a place of excitement and optimism rather than fear or doubt. 从兴奋和乐观的角度做决策,而不是基于恐惧或怀疑。
  • Michelle Obama: Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't. 永远不要基于恐惧做决策,要基于希望和可能性。做决策时,考虑应该发生的事情,而不是不应该发生的事情。

(2)基于当下而不被过去限制的决策

  • Dr. Joe Dispenza: Cultivate present-moment awareness to make decisions based on current reality, not past fears. 培养当下的意识,以基于当前现实做出决策,而不是过去的恐惧。关键的选择要么基于未来的愿景,要么来自过去的记忆。我们要么被未来的愿景定义,要么被过去的记忆限制。

  • Bob Proctor:

    • Trust your gut and reach decisions promptly. If you take over 10 seconds to make important decisions, your paradigm is making a decision.
    • Men who succeed reach decisions promptly, and change them, if at all, very slowly. Men who fail, reach decisions, if at all, very slowly, and change them frequently, and quickly. Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also. Think and Grow Rich

当你感到冲动或积极情绪时,应该立即做出决定。信任直觉,迅速决策。如果你需要超过10秒钟来做重要决定,那是你的限制性思维习惯在起作用。最初几秒钟的想法通常来自直觉,而后续的想法往往受到恐惧和他人看法的影响。一旦旧的限制性思维模式介入,它会在你的脑海中滋生,列出各种理由、情况和条件,解释为什么你应该或不应该这样做。因此,你应该相信最初的直觉,快速做出决定。

(3)乐观的逆向思维

  • Naval Ravikant: A contrarian isn’t one who always objects—that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to conform. Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed. 逆向思维者并不总是持反对意见,那只是一种不同形式的顺从。真正的逆向思维者从根本上独立思考,并抵抗顺从的压力。犬儒主义很容易,模仿也很容易,但乐观的逆向思维者是最稀有的一类。

  • Bob Proctor:

    • I would not participate in discussions of why something cannot be done. 不参与讨论为什么事情不能完成。
    • Only set for C-type Goal: You don’t know how but you really want. 只设定C型目标:不知道如何实现,但是发自内心想要实现。

(4)基于内心真实的真我/高我

  • Osho: Meditation is a deep listening, listening to the inner voice. As you become silent, voices cease. Then your nature asserts itself- and that is a flowering. As a seed breaks and comes out, sprouting, so your inner voice comes out, sprouting. And then follow it: wherever it leads, follow it. Don't listen to anybody; that is your way to God. This is what I mean by sannyas: it is a renunciation of false investments, it is a renunciation of others and their wishes and their expectations, and it is a decision to be authentically oneself. 冥想是一种深度倾听,通过倾听内在的声音,我们能够找到最真实的自我。内在的声音不仅通过语言,还通过身体、情绪和感受传递。感受是灵魂的语言。学会倾听身体和情感的变化,可以帮助我们更好地做出决策。

Affirmation:

"I make wise decisions effortlessly"

“我能够轻松地做出明智的决策”

"I trust my ability to choose the best path"

“我相信自己选择最佳路径的能力”

"Every decision I make leads me to growth and success"

“每一个决策都引导我走向成长和成功”

“I effortlessly make swift, confident decisions, guided by a strong self-image. My choices support a healthy body, boost my finances, and lead me towards financial freedom and success.”


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