Fast and Deliberate Thinking for Better Decisions

You'll learn to spot the cognitive biases that quietly distort intuitive judgment—anchoring, framing, availability, confirmation, overconfidence, and the biases that skew how we judge people and commitments. You'll practice naming these biases in real decisions and applying concrete checks that make your recommendations more defensible.

Build a practical toolkit for deliberate reasoning: pre-mortems, pre-set criteria, decision journals, and decision-mode choices. Apply the right tool to stress-test plans, compare options fairly, review decisions honestly, and match your level of analysis to the stakes.

You'll pull the whole path together to decide and communicate under real uncertainty—matching your thinking mode to the stakes, calibrating and defending your confidence, and making safe fast calls under pressure. This capstone asks you to justify your judgment to skeptics, so you'll be pushed to challenge your own assumptions and assemble a decision playbook you can stand behind.