Insights on decision-making protocols

I came across about a week ago a video by Dr. Ellen Langer who she's written a book about mindfulness and she's done research on how the mind affects the health of the body and what we think and our perspectives and how it changes how we experience life and reality and it was about decision-making and it made me remember two other protocols that I had heard about that were fairly similar but I'll leave hers for last.

So the first real decision-making protocol that I can remember I had read a book by a hypnotist named Marshall Silver and he'd written a book if I remember right it was called Passion, Profit and Power or Passion, Power and Profit I don't remember exactly but I do remember this chapter because it stood out to me and he said make decisions quickly and the rationality he had for that was if you make a decision quickly you get to see the result of your decision and then you can make another decision as a result of the results that you experience. When you postpone a decision then you just maintain the status quo and you learn nothing different. So that's the first one.

The next one that I can remember if I'm remembering this in the right order was an example of an executive whose advice was that when you have a decision that you are comfortable with just make the decision move on with your life. He says when you aren't sure what he does or what he did was he just had in his pocket some random like maybe tokens or coins or something like that in his pocket and he would just reach in and if it was an even number then he would go with option A and if it was an odd number he would go with option B. He says it didn't really matter because again whoever was looking for a decision because he was the boss, the CEO or the director or whatever position he was in if they needed an answer to should I do this or this for him to be a leader he needed to be confident and he said if I wasn't sure and both looked fairly good I just would count and he kept that to himself but it helped him deal with an option that he wasn't sure but needed to make a decision and that kind of tied into that quick decision-making.

Now Dr. Ellen Langer her advice was this: you cannot predict the result of your own decision and if you have to make a decision even if it's like it will impact your life like who you're going to marry or should you move to a new city to start a new job instead of living where you are now and these seem like man I really got to think of the details she said it doesn't matter you're not trying to make a good decision although that's how we mostly think of it. Her take on this was that make a decision and make it the good decision so essentially whatever it is that you choose to do simply follow through on that decision and make it the right choice so very similar advice there and I really like that.