### Course Overview
- **Course Title:** How to Make Smarter Decisions and Stop Making Foolish Ones
- **Instructor:** Bob Berkowitz
- **Target Audience:**
- Individuals seeking to improve personal or professional decision-making
- Professionals aiming to enhance critical thinking and risk assessment
- Beginners to advanced learners interested in behavioral psychology and cognitive biases
- **Prerequisites:** None
### Curriculum Highlights
- **Key Topics Covered:**
- **Decision-making frameworks** for objective analysis
- **Confirmation bias** and its impact on choices
- **Emotional vs. data-driven decisions**
- **Risk tolerance** and tradeoff evaluation
- **Instant gratification** and long-term consequences
- **Indecision as a decision** and its implications
- **Assumptions** and their role in poor outcomes
- **Blind spots** in personal and professional judgment
- **Law of unintended consequences** in decision-making
- **Seeking diverse opinions** for balanced perspectives
- **Key Skills Learned:**
- Techniques to **avoid emotional decision-making**
- Strategies to **identify and mitigate cognitive biases**
- Methods for **evaluating risks and tradeoffs** effectively
- Ability to **recognize and challenge assumptions**
- Skills to **seek and incorporate opposing viewpoints**
- Tools for **long-term planning** over short-term gains
### Course Format
- **Duration:** 1 hour on-demand video
- **Format:** Self-paced online course (lifetime access)
- **Resources:**
- Access on **mobile and TV**
- **Certificate of completion**
### Additional Information
- **Course Category:** Personal Development / Decision-Making
- **Student Enrollment:** 193,420+ (across instructor’s courses)
- **Instructor Rating:** 4.3 (based on 4,083 reviews)
