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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive

How to Avoid Making Decisions (1)

1 Recourse to someone or even something else: For

example, in contrast to astrology, one must accept the fact

that success is not due to a concourse of stars at

our birth, but due to a steady trail of sparks from the

grindstones of hard work, determination, good planning,

and perseverance

fixed

fortuitous

precipitous

prepoinderant

2 False hopes: False hope and fear are two sides of the

same — we can promise according to our hopes

that are under our control only (and have some degree of

certainty on its outcome), but we avoid making decisions

according to our fears of the outcomes

camp

coin

face

street

3 Do not think about it: The decision-makers who are

waiting for something to up might start with their

shirt sleeves; you can either take action, or you can hang

back and hope for a miracle

come

pop

show

turn

4 Do anchoring: Give weight to some information

instead of waiting as long as possible in order to have all

the information

disproportional

disreputable

unexceptional

unintentional

5 .-cost conscious: Repeat the same decision

because you have invested so much in this approach (or

your current job) that you cannot abandon it or make

another decision (or look for a better position)

High

Hire

Sunk

Sure

6 Look for confirming evidence: Seek out the information

to support an existing preselection and opposing

ones

decry

denigrate

discount

dissuade

7 Pray for a miracle: Emerson said, "As men's prayers are

a disease of the will, so are their a disease of the

intellect."

creeds

deeds

greeds

needs

8 Be over-confident: This makes you optimistic and then

you make high risk decisions; as Henri Poincare said,

"Doubt everything or believe everything — these are two

equally convenient strategies, and with either, we

dispense the need to think for ourselves."

for

to

with

(none)

9 Be too prudent: Our doubts are traitors and make us

lose opportunities by fearing to make our decision — and

not only that, but it is ; it transmits itself to others who

depend on you

contagious

contractual

epidemic

pandemic

10 Misrepresentation: Use argument that seems scientific

— for example, compute and use the average salary as a

typical representative of salary rather than the

medial

median

medium

meridian