5 tips to make better decisions

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Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Prequel.

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We’ve got lots to tell you, so let’s dive right in. Here’s what you’ll get today:

💡 How to make better decisions
⚡️ 2 Short lessons
🚀 3 tools to boost your family’s productivity

💡 Valuable Things Kids Don’t Learn In School

The ability to make good decisions is one of the most important skills in life. Yet most schools don’t teach kids anything about how to make better decisions - and how to avoid bad ones.

Here are 5 simple ideas you can teach your children to improve their decision making skills today:

1. Decision fatigue: Decision-making is a mentally demanding task. And the quality of your decisions drops as you get more tired. Don't make decisions when you're tired.
   

2. Survivorship bias: We're all wowed by the rockstar CEO that dropped out of college. But we overlook the 99% of dropouts who go on to fail. Our brains get distracted by shiny exceptions. Don't fall for exceptions when making a decision.
   

3. Confirmation bias: We demand extraordinarily high evidence for views that do not fit our existing beliefs. And accept extraordinarily low evidence for views that do. Evaluate both pros and cons before making a decision.
   

4. Don't make decisions when you're emotional: We've all made decisions in the moment that we regret later. Why? Because we let our emotions get the best of us in the moment. Be patient and wait to make decisions when you're in a calm emotional state.
   

5. Liking bias: Often times we can fool ourselves into making a decision because we like the person in front of us. That's why ads always feature attractive people - they know you like attractive people. Don't do something just because you like the person asking you to do it.

⚡️ 2 Short Lessons

1. How to find your passion as a student (link)

2. How teens should set up for success (link)

🚀 3 Tools To Boost Your Family’s Productivity

1. Study Crumb: An AI-powered grammar checker to help you improve grammar by highlighting errors. (link)

2. Literally Anything: An AI creation tool that enables users to build various digital products, including apps, games, widgets, or digital services, directly in the browser using text input. (link)

3. Kroma AI: An AI-powered tool to make stunning presentations, charts, and graphs within seconds. (link)

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Ivy
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