DECISION MAKING 264. Go with the Gut Trust your instincts and make a “gut decision.” Revisit the decision the next day and see if it feels right. If it does, keep going with it. Studies have found that people who trusted their emotions were better at predicting future events than 1 those who didn’t place trust in their emotions . Malcolm Gladwell also addresses this phenomenon in 2 his book Blink . After researching case studies in both the military and hospitals (places where decisions may mean the difference between life and death), Gladwell concluded: “We take it, as a given, that the more information decision makers have, the better off they are… All that extra information isn’t actually an advantage at all; in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.”3 So, just pick something already! 1 See Feelings and Predictions. 2 See Blink. 3 See Snap Decisions. 137