Decision-making: Why you shouldn’t rely on your gut

Andrew Pain, a motivational, mental health, and wellbeing speaker, explains why we should be cautious about using gut feelings to help us make decisions.

Pain also explains psychological and environmental steps we can take to ensure our decision-making processes are fair and logical and offers ways organisations can make conversations around biases more comfortable and accessible.

“If we want to make better decisions, then we need to understand these biases and how we relate to them,” Pain said.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

§ Why our gut instincts are often flawed.

§ A mental checklist for working through problems effectively.

§ Resources to improve our awareness of biased thinking.

§ One way organisations can improve bias training courses.

§ Environmental factors and stimuli that can interact with cognitive processing.