From the course: Sharpen Your Decision-Making with Nuanced Thinking Techniques
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Learn to differentiate problem solving and decision-making
From the course: Sharpen Your Decision-Making with Nuanced Thinking Techniques
Learn to differentiate problem solving and decision-making
- We've talked about how nuanced thinking has an important role to play in decision-making, but it also has an important role to play in problem-solving, too. This is because decision-making and problem-solving are linked to each other in an interesting way. Have you ever considered how they might be connected? Pause the video now and see if you can figure out how problem-solving and decision-making are linked. (upbeat music) To understand the connection between problem-solving and decision-making, it helps to break down problem-solving into steps. Step one, identify a gap between the way you want things to be and the way things actually are. For instance, you might want your social media posts to have high levels of engagement, but right now, they receive little engagement. Step two, generate options for what you could do in order to try to close the gap between what's happening and what you want to be happening. For instance, one option could be to change the visual style of the…