Hell Yeah! or Hell No! And How to Tell the Difference: The Ultimate Guide to Intuitive Decision Making

by Sam Kyle

“Trust your gut.”We’ve all heard it. We’ve all done it. Sometimes the outcome was great and other times it backfired in disastrous ways. When we’re right, we pat ourselves on the back and bask in our own brilliance. When we’re wrong, we’re perplexed — even surprised — like the rug was pulled out from under us.So the big question How can you tell the difference? Especially when stakes are high and the wrong decision carries heavy consequences. How do you know when you can trust your gut and when you absolutely shouldn’t? Is it more than luck?Sam Kyle, in his second book, Hell Yeah! or Hell No! and How to Tell the Difference, dives into the mountains of recent academic research to answer those questions and more. You’ll What kinds of decisions are perfect for intuitive decision making and which ones aren’t How to train your “intuition muscles,” so when you make a gut decision, you know you can trust it How to “spot check” your feedback loop so you’ll instantly recognize optimal gut decision situations The biggest mistakes people make when making any decision (and how to avoid them) How flipping a coin “hacks” your intuition when you’re on the fence about something important How to identify the sneaky cognitive bias that feels like a gut decision but almost always leads you down the wrong path...and much more. In this fast paced digital world where options are numberless and decisions matter, being able to trust your gut is nothing short of a superpower. The good news is you already have it in you. You just need to develop it. This is the book to show you how.

Genres: Psychology

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 27, 2019

Reviews

[Andrew Dennison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good read!

[Harsh Ankur · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a really nice topic to talk about and it started on a good note. But somehow it doesn’t spark a “Hell Yeah!” inside of me when I think about its content. So yeah, I would summarise the entire book in two points -
1. Intuitions are quick unconscious judgements based on experiences in a topic like medicine or sports.
2. If something sparks a “Hell Yeah” inside of you for a decision, go with it since it arrives from our intuitions and they are usually about choosing the better of the decisions.


It’s a short book so I wouldn’t recommend not reading it but it’s not something you should really look forward to.

[Michael Harvey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is short and to the point. It only has one thing to say and it says it well. It tells us something that we already knew was true before picking up the book - that all our really good, sound, effective and important decisions are made instinctively. We are in a situation of choice and suddenly we know what to do next. The problem is how can you make it more likely that we make those kinds of instinctive decisions.

Sam Kyle uses contemporary psychological research on decision making to show us just how rubbish we are at effective decision making. Broadly speaking our decisions, are based around risk reduction and safety and we do a post-hoc rationalisation of why it's a good idea once we've made the decision. You know you're doing this when you use the events and conditions around the decision to 'make' the decision rather than what the decision is actually about.

The author gives revealing examples of how experienced experts work in their field. Less experienced but highly-qualified professionals use their learning to apply criteria to a situation in order to make a judgement which will probably work for most cases. An expert will walk into the situation and already know that something is wrong. Then they will home into where the problem is and their response will be a clear and unambiguous. I suppose that the hallmark if the expert is that they make it look easy.

So how do we get to expert status. The old fashioned way! Lots of time on the job working in a responsive and aware way. Putting in the hours so that your body-mind is super-attuned to whatever field you are in. The gut feeling you get when something is right or wrong for you feels like a bolt from the blue but it is the product of practice and attention giving to a certain field over a long period of time. The good news is that we are all experts in our own lives and when you get that feeling that something is right for you and you follow that urge you summon resources in yourself that are only really available when your gut says'yes'.

[May · Rating 5 out of 5]

Impressed by this mini book because it is super short yet gave me a new insight about intuition and decision-making.