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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