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Wise Decisions
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Wise Decisions

by James E. Loehr, Sheila Ohlsson Walker
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 23m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Index

  • Action, taking, 133–134, 148–149
  • Adolescent development, 86–87. See also Parenting teens
  • Adversity, reframing, 95
  • Advertising, television, 57
  • Anam Cara (O'Donohue), 33
  • Angelou, Maya, 77
  • Anger over mistakes, 138
  • Aperture, narrowing of, 130
  • Arginine vasopressin, 17
  • Arguments, 68
  • Atrophy, 87, 95–96, 110, 128, 132
  • Automatic decision‐making, 30
  • Awareness. See also Conscious awareness
    • of emotions/feelings, 120–121
    • family story and, 95–96
  • Balance, internal, 14–15, 18, 121, 131
  • Basketball, shooting, 30
  • Behave (Sapolsky), 86
  • Beliefs:
  • Best Moral Self (lens), 51, 115
  • Best Self (lens), 51, 114–115, 148
  • Bias:
    • confirmation, 4
    • conservation of energy, 109–110
    • eliminating, 146
  • Biological sensitivity to context, 19–20
  • Blocked messages, 25–26, 71
  • Bogus facts, debunking, 59–60
  • Bowling analogy, 23–24
  • Brackett, Marc, 121, 122
  • Care, 147
  • Carlson, Richard, 133
  • Car trouble, 68
  • Cascade of poor decision‐making, 6–8
  • Challenge and skills, balance between, 137
  • Change, self‐directed, 155–156
  • Chatter (Kross), 39
  • Checklist, emotions/feelings, 124–125
  • Children. See Parenting young children
  • Child's memory, storage of, 79–80
  • Choice overload, 2
  • Chronic stress, 128
  • Circumstances, facing “as is,” 137
  • Coaching yourself from the third person, 123
  • Cognitive dissonance, 4–5
  • Cohen, Leonard, 94
  • Command center:
    • access, blocking, 25–26
    • access, criteria for granting/blocking, 5
    • access, granting, 26–27
    • access, questions about granting/blocking, 42–43
    • Y.O.D.A. ...
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