{"id":485,"date":"2018-10-15T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2018-10-15T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:22:38","slug":"mental-model-mondays-decision-journaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/startup\/mental-model-mondays-decision-journaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Model Mondays: Decision Journaling"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a mental model I haven’t started yet.\u00a0 I bought a book about it yesterday, called the “The Decision Checklist”<\/a>, and the first three chapters were good.\u00a0 My wife and I tried it, albeit not journaling but using the framework to discuss an important decision in our life, and we both got some value out of it.\u00a0 I used the framework at work today as well, and it helped me frame a complex issue to my team.\u00a0 The most important part for me is the review and reflection.\u00a0 Writing something down in my own handwriting has a powerful effect on how I rationalize what I wrote.\u00a0 Looking back on journals I kept five years ago, I’m often struck by just how different I was at the time.\u00a0 And instead of trying to rationalize it, I try and put myself back in the shoes I wore.\u00a0 When I read my words on a screen; however, I’m far more likely to disregard them as a moment of weakness or poor thought.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s easier to skip through typed words. When you put the effort into writing by hand your brain puts the effort into analyzing it.<\/p>\n

There is a glaring problem with decision journaling and that is the time it takes to really make it work.\u00a0 Writing by hand takes time, and if you make lots of decisions a day, which do you need to prioritize?\u00a0 Is that something you should journal?\u00a0 The best solution is to journal as many as you can, but who really has time for that?\u00a0 But if you are interested in trying it out, buy the book.\u00a0 It was $2.99.\u00a0 I think\u00a0it’s well worth the effort for that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a mental model I haven’t started yet.\u00a0 I bought a book about it yesterday, called the “The Decision Checklist”, and the first three chapters were good.\u00a0 My wife and I tried it, albeit not journaling but using the framework to discuss an important decision in our life, and we both got some value […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}