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Avoid Overthinking and Make Decisions Faster Overthinking is not the same as being cautious and methodical about making a decision. By contrast, despite the amount of analysis overthinkers do, they may never get any closer to actually making a decision. If you’re an overthinker—or even just want to make decisions faster—try these tips to be more decisive. |
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Bananas and Critical Thinking People skilled in critical thinking are willing to accept new findings and evidence, even if it means reassessing previous beliefs. They aim to rely on reason rather than emotion in making decisions, and they seek to detect inconsistencies in reasoning, including their own. It's an important skill to have in software. |
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Battling Brain Fatigue When You Have Decisions to Make If mental energy is necessary for optimal performance, then decision-making is likely to suffer when your mental energy is drained. Although we all experience "brain fatigue," there are ways to fight it—and that includes knowing what the triggers are and having activities that help get you energized again. |
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How Challenging Your Beliefs Can Improve Your Work The psychological term "confirmation bias" means that once you have a certain belief, you tend to see evidence that supports that belief and to ignore, belittle, or miss evidence that refutes it. This can make you narrow-minded. Instead, try to seek evidence that challenges or refutes your beliefs. |
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How to Do Your Best Creative Thinking Between interruptions, meetings, changes in priorities, and general everyday chaos, it's difficult to do any creative thinking. You need to give your brain a break from heavy-duty, task-oriented thoughts. To find out how to stimulate your own best creative thinking, consider both where and when. |
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How to Minimize Obsessive Thoughts Once you start obsessing over something, it can block out all other thoughts. Such obsessions are often about understandable worries, like whether you’ll meet the upcoming deadline or how you’ll cope with your new and fearsome boss. Follow this advice to quiet the thoughts you can't help thinking. |
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Upgrade Your Wetware for Better Testing Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process. What you find when testing a piece of software depends on your thinking, your perceptions, how you organize your observations, and what connections you draw between them. |
