Decision Making: One of the Most Important Abilities to Possess

Fast thinking and fast decisions are two very imporant life traits. Not just human, any creature on earth who is fast and decides fast has always more chances of success and survival.

Why is this so important and how can you train it?

Decision stands for one of the most complex things in LIFE. Just imagine the amount of things you can do right now. You can choose to read this article, you can go outside, you can buy a gun and blow someone (facing serious consequences later), you can continue to read this article, you can buy a car, listen to music, whatever you want.

However each decision will lead you to an action. And each action will lead you to a result and that result can be good or bad.

When you make the right decision, you get the right results. But the right decision will only depend on the result you want to achieve. If you want to survive in the wild, then a good decision is to make a bow for yourself and do it quickly because the chances of being attacked to be killed by an animal increases with each second elapsed.

Second reason why decision is very important, and I mean really fast decision is because of hunger. You need to eat frequently and the food you get depends on the actions you take. The right actions will make you survive. The wrong action may kill you. If you want to eat today you need to be good at something, you need to do it a lot and better than anyone else.

If you are a male and you want to attract a female the first thing you need to do is to be fast. Take more than a few seconds to approach her and she will lose her interest.

How can you train your decision making abilities?

First thing you need to do is to manage something that requires a lot of mental power. Computer games are great at this. Some games are turn based. They are very good for making decisions but they are not timed, and in life you cannot pause it, then resume it. Real time strategy games are the best ones to train your decision making ability.

Always put the game in the HARDEST mode possible. You will feel a lot of frustration in the beginning and the you will improve deadly fast and then you will finally be better than the computer. Once that happens just check your mental power.

This happens because all your body and specially your brain adapts itself to any environment. When you put yourself in an environment where you need to decide a lot, your brain will improve that area.

But the opposite is also true! when you stop doing it, your brain will adapt itself to the more relaxed life and you will lose all your learned and improved abilities.

Your brain and your body are always matching your environment. the more you stress them (in the good way that is!) the better they will push themselves to match the environment.