Decision Time

How to Make the Choices Your Life Depends On

By: Laurence Alison, Neil Shortland

Narrated by: Laurence Alison, Neil Shortland

Brought to you by Penguin.

Should I change careers? Is it time to end my relationship? Can I move halfway across the world?

We have to make choices everyday, big and small, but it's the life-changing ones that often cause us to freeze or react too quickly, without thinking. What can we do differently?

Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland have spent more than 20 years helping soldiers, police officers, doctors and other professionals in high-stakes environments make tough decisions when lives are on the line. In Decision Time, they show us how those same decision-making techniques apply to everyday life, whether that's deciding to take a new job or change career later in life, end a relationship, move across the world or declaring your undying love for your best friend.

With tips, studies, interviews and observations from their training with police officers together with role-play scenarios for you to try, this book will help you identify and fight off the common enemies of good decision-making - inertia, procrastination and indecision - and empower you to make the choices that matter the most.

Highly accessible and interactive, Decision Time will guide you through each step of the decision-making process so next time you a find yourself at the crossroads, you'll be able to make your way with confidence.

©2021 Laurence Alison, Neil Shortland (P)2021 Penguin Audio

informative and inspiring

This book gives great anecdotes and advice on making decisions. Will be referring to it frequently for reminders on the multiple strategies for good decision making.

Bad

Hard decisions in life are hard. This book is a grift and will not make your life decisions any easier. Trust yourself and the universe. Save your money and time and don’t listen to this.

One gem with a lot of padding

I had a lot of hopes for this book and it had a lot of information in it but that information was more like a testimony to their work given by themselves. However there was one gem in the entire book I felt which was the key point about making difficult decisions.

That one point stood out as being that when you are struggling with a major decision it is probably because two of your highest values are opposed. And that if you know what your values are of course which they do not go into You can work out what that is and understand the dilemma

So yes that’s the key point. If you are struggling with a decision and cannot work out how to move forward you will probably find that it is because you are having a struggle with two of your highest values opposing each other.

The rest of the information was pretty much basic typology which I suppose for someone that doesn’t know about that kind of thing as in personality types might find helpful.