We make thousands of decisions every day, some simple and some more involved. To improve the chances that you’ll make a “right” choice, try looking at all of your options together rather than evaluating them one at a time. For example, if you’re deciding which job candidates to interview, it’s better to lay out the résumés of all applicants on a table, evaluate and compare them, and then decide whom to interview — instead of looking at one candidate’s résumé, forming an opinion about it, and then moving on to assess the next one. Recent research shows that viewing options together like this makes you more likely to choose the objectively best one. With all of the information in front of you at once, you can compare the options more thoroughly.
Adapted from "To Make Better Choices, Look at All Your Options Together," by Shankha Basu and Krishna Savani
