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Thou bloggers. I can find just like an audio book and with their permission, things about a month since we ve heard from Christian long. She writes about personal finance, frequently too so I tend to save those posts for optimal financed daily or not. The pike ass in this network. But today is about decision making which the a great fit for this show, so that was get right to the post as we optimize your life. How cognitive closure affects decision, making by Christian long of the wild long dark com. I'm a list person I make it so the things I have to do stuff, I wanna buy angles. I lie to achieve I've been doing this. As far back as I can remember my mom to tell the story of how I showed her my lifetime line. As a kid remember, the night When printer paper was one long parade sheet, my time and took up like six sheets Sela this time.

Included every single milestone. I plan to reach from graduating college to having a kid to publishing my first book that time, and helped me set some concrete goals and work towards them, which is why my mom, was proud of me. I didn't just make a list duration, though even as a kid. He had to know exactly what I was doing with my life. I couldn't just in you're the. What is cognitive closure list timelines and organization help me because my mind is constantly pulled in different directions. It also A strong need for something called cognitive closure. In fact, we all have. This need guidance. Closure is our aversion toward ambiguity and our desire, to arrive at definite conclusions, sometimes a rationally, in other words, is our need to know everything to feel a sense of control is coming up with a giant timeline of events struggling to predict the future. Because I'm averse to not knowing Twenty one answers more than you want the right answers. I first read about this concept and child you Higgs book

which are not mentioned a zillion times already smarter, faster better in it doing explains how it can, profound impact on decision making. Here's how worse in the first place, though, quote then if we're cognitive closure in many settings can be a great strength, people a strong urge for closure are more likely to be self disciplined and seen as leaders by their peers. Alvis, crave, closure to some degree and that's good The basic level of personal organization is a prerequisite for success. Once more, making decision and moving on to the next question feels productive. It feels like progress on quote his point that closure fuel like progress really stood out to me. Sometimes what feels productive is simply a distraction. For example, when I want to boost productivity, I love checking in replying to emails, while I'm doing those tracking to myself from the actual productive work I should be doing is an illusion and that's a b problem with a need of college of Closure and makes us up

the ball to illusions and poor judgment when it comes to this, you're. Making our need for cognitive closure can be a distraction. How cognitive closure causes problems. A paper published in political psychology said that quote then. Foreclosure introduces a bias into the judge mental process, on quote, in other words, when your bed, having all the answers, your less likely to be open to the fact that Maybe wrong. I think there's I was bad him ass. I come over the solution and even if it in quite look right, My mind would say Nan and that's just some weird anomaly. You ve got the answer, your good. It seems fairly obvious houses, problematic right bias is bad. Here's the ways our need for can best things up those specifically when it comes to decision making misdiagnoses problems when you Firstly, why something is wrong, so you diagnose, it was something you do understands like my math issues or

first, when I was unwilling to admit I had depression and coped with incorrectly, black and white thinking, when you want to understand one subjects so badly that you focus on its opposite in order to understand better for example. When I realized the religion I was raised with wasn't for me, I spent a long time Haiti it. I wanted Your stand, what it meant to not have a religion and for a while we did it with heating religion altogether. It may be closed minded and intolerant does new ones in everything. A black and white thinking fuelled by the need for closure gives you seeing that new was missed opportunities. When your knee, to know exactly who you are and your life's purpose kitten. If having new fulfilling opportunities in college, I planned on in teacher. If, in my time line, I was up, the early joined the courses, though I am luckily a couple. My english professors intervened dimension, I'd be happier if I switch majors I did I was. I want

Donna, though, if I didn't like oh my need for closure and re, evaluate my passion sign note. I still think teaching is one of the most noble professions. For me, though, the biggest problem with cognitive closure is at a kiss me from enjoying the process that Thai mine was nice and all, but there's so much left out and became so obsessed with what I should be I should go and what I should accomplish, that I forgot the entire Point of setting goals in the first place a sense of fulfilment and happiness. None of this is to say our need for cognitive. Closure is bad, like I said, mind sometimes feels like a pinball machine with tender from balls. Goya was missing here distracting me have no idea where to focus, and I'm scared that, if I don't focus on something I'll, miss out on everything, cognitive closure makes me feel good, because It helps me focus amid all that craziness Thou said there are drawbacks, my late to learn how to balance the need for college of closure with the beauty of not knowing all the answers,

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