Making Decisions Is Easy When You Do This - Joe Hudson
Coach Joe Hudson tells Chris Williamson that decision-making is 100% emotional, and that hard decisions get easier once you can feel the emotions you fear and lean on a small set of personal principles.
The gist
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Hudson says fear pushes the brain into black and white thinking and a false sense of finality, hiding options and the chance to correct course.
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To face his fear of losing his wife of 27 years, Hudson and she mourn the marriage, imagining the loss through to life afterwards.
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Hudson makes 80% of his decisions using five to seven principles, such as treating everything as an iteration and building the least-known part first.
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His staff must run three to five experiments a quarter on doing their jobs differently, because he says pace matters more than getting things right.
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Hudson describes a six-day Ayurvedic Pancha Karma retreat with about six hours of treatments a day, silence and no phones, which he has now done three years running.
"They have something that they do for longevity called panchakarma. You could call it longevity, you could call it health. I call it health. And it's basically like a reset where there's a very particular diet and they give you like six hours of treatments a day... I've done it..."
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"I have a personal principle. So everything is an iteration. What that means is failure isn't a thing. There's just I run experiments and I learn... If I do that instead of think..."
"So both of us have come up with this method where we basically just mourn the marriage, because what I'm scared of is I'm going to lose her. So I'm just going to assume I've los..."
"They have something that they do for longevity called panchakarma. You could call it longevity, you could call it health. I call it health. And it's basically like a reset where..."
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