Why We Make Terrible Decisions and How to Improve Them

Want to change your life? It starts with one good decision. Learn how decisions impact our lives from this discussion with https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Pastors Keith Simon) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick Miller). Interested in more content like this? Scroll down for more resources and related episodes, including https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-break-and-make-life-changing-habits/ (How to Make and Break Life-Changing Habits) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-handle-uncertainty-about-the-future/ (How to Handle Uncertainty About the Future). Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Outline 0:15 - Follow our new https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) account @tmbtpodcast 5:00 - Book recommendations 7:20 - Career choice statistics 9:40 - Why we make terrible decisions 10:00 - https://www.simplypsychology.org/confirmation-bias.html (Confirmation bias): https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/seeing-what-others-dont/201905/the-curious-case-confirmation-bias (smoking study) and https://reason.com/2017/05/15/study-you-literally-cant-even-pay-people/ (disagreement study) 22:45 - How we can make better decisions 23:05 - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1204188-the-first-principle-is-that-you-must-not-fool-yourself-and (Richard Feynman quote) and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2017%3A9&version=NIV (Jeremiah 17.9) 28:45 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25.21-23&version=NIV (Matthew 25.21-23) 37:35 - Get an outside perspective: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12.15&version=NIV (Proverbs 12.