
Dave Smith PhD
Dave Smith PhD (d.d.smith @ mmu.ac.uk) is a HCPC registered Sport and Chartered Exercise Psychologist and a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dave has deep interests in high intensity training, psychological skills training, and decision-making processes in sports.
Listen to Parts 1-7:
232 – Dave Smith PhD – How to make Better Decisions in your Business (Part 1)
251 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and Life (Part 2)
314 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and in Life (Part 3)
317 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and Life (Part 4)
318 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and Life (Part 5)
320 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and Life (Part 6)
321 – Dave Smith PhD – How to Make Better Decisions in your Business and Life (Part 7)
In this episode, Dave joins me for Part 8 of our Decision Making series to show you how to make better decisions in your life and business. He talks about performing pre-mortems, benefits of negative thinking, sunk cost fallacy, overcoming analysis paralysis, and much more.
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Show Notes
- 3:03 – Premortem: process, purpose, pros
- 13:35 – The power of negative thinking, Sunk cost fallacy
- 27:10 – Tips to overcome ‘analysis paralysis’
- 37:42 – Framework for high-impact decision making
- 53:14 – Recommended books/resources
- 56:28 – Decision making insights
Selected Links from the Episode
- Premortem
- How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices by Annie Duke
- Survivorship Bias
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Concorde Fallacy
- Kieser Training
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
- MINDBODY
- A3 Problem Solving
- Super Slow Protocol
- 340 – Dr James Steele – Inter-Individual Variation in Response to Resistance Training, The Truth about Effect Sizes, and other Exercise Science Flaws
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael Mauboussin
- The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael Mauboussin
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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