Decision Making

Why University is Worth Spending Out For

Jordan Hogan | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Jordan Hogan

I'm not going to lie, the tuition fees are more than they used to be a year ago but that doesn't mean that higher education is out of the question for you. I myself decided this year to go to university and not once did the price ever come across my mind.

Seven Life-Changing Foods

Realbuzz.com | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Realbuzz.com

The foods you eat can help influence your mood, prepare your body and put you in the right frame of mind. Here are seven foods to help you achieve success.

Parkinson's Drug May Help With Decision-Making

PA | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

A widely used Parkinson's drug may help older people to make up their minds, research suggests. Poor decision-making is a recognised problem of age...

Three Ways You're Wasting Time Today (Without Even Noticing)

Joanna Pieters | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Joanna Pieters

Lots of activities we think of as time-wasting aren't that at all. Facebook might be an important way of getting some down-time in a busy day. Chatting at the school gate builds a community, while waiting for the GP at least can give you time to catch up on a book. But lurking in your day are probably pockets of truly dead time. Time-wasters that have no benefit at all.

When Not to Give Up

Korina Karampela | Posted 16.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Korina Karampela

The dilemma when to give up or not becomes prominent when you face important decisions about career progression. For example: do you push for your next promotion or do you change companies?

How to Sleep Your Way to the Top - Literally

Arianna Huffington | Posted 27.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Arianna Huffington

There's practically no element of success that's not improved by sleep and, accordingly, diminished by lack of sleep. Creativity, ingenuity, confidence, leadership, decision making - all of these can be enhanced simply by sleeping more...But of course, getting more sleep is easier said than done -- believe me, I know! This is especially true in a culture that's wired and connected 24/7. And more and more science is proving the truth that screens and sleep are natural enemies.

Three Ways to Tell if You're Suffering From 'Analysis Paralysis'

Emma Brooke | Posted 12.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Emma Brooke

Life holds a world of possibilities, don't waste it sat on the sidelines trying to decide which team to play for.

Hoarder Disorder: Brains Scans Reveal What Stops Declutter

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Patients with hoarding disorder exhibited abnormal activity in regions of the brain that was stimulus dependent when deciding what to do with objects ...

Why Business is Like Piracy and Needs More Irrational Thought

Jim Prior | Posted 04.09.2012 | UK
Jim Prior

In the study of economic decision-making the Ultimatum Game is an illustration of the unpredictability of human behaviour, value judgement, and the role and importance, therein, of morality.

Zen and the Art of Mathematics

Tim Curtis | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Tim Curtis

What does Gove want us back to? He wants young people today to get bogged down in minutiae of detail and take their eye off the goal. He wants worker drones with no sense of their own capabilities and intelligence. He doesn't want people to solve problems, he wants clerks to write down sums in a book, perhaps to help balance the national deficit.

Rationalising the Irrational: A Step-by-Step Guide

Teresa Goncalves | Posted 04.06.2012 | UK Politics
Teresa Goncalves

Ever wondered what kind of rationale goes behind the policy-making decisions executed by the coalition government? Well look no further. Here is a detailed step-by-step guide on how to devise and execute a sound security policy.

Start-Up Memoires: Aristotle, an Accidental Philosopher?

Louisa Leontiades | Posted 25.02.2012 | UK
Louisa Leontiades

I started a business. It made me want to drink copious quantities, smoke myself into oblivion and hit my head against a brick wall. Instead I wrote a ...

You Can Live Without Email - Yes You Can

Mark Fletcher-Brown | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Mark Fletcher-Brown

If the first thing you do in the morning is to check your email, then you need to get a life. If it's the first thing your partner does in bed, then maybe he or she finds other people more interesting than you.

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How To Be A Better Decision Maker

HuffingtonPost.com | Kyrsty Jade Hazell | Posted 14.11.2011 | UK Lifestyle

The average Brit makes 773,618 decisions in a lifetime but lives to regret as many as 143,262 of them, a study has found. Deliberating for nine mi...