Ep 129. How to Think More Clearly and Make Better Decisions

Why can we recognize that something is not working, yet still hesitate to change it? In this episode, Christine speaks with Andres Kuusk about the thinking patterns that quietly shape our decisions. Andres is a seven-time World Pentamind Champion, former game theory professor, business executive, and author of Unlocking the Success Puzzle. The conversation looks beyond motivation and productivity advice. Instead, it examines how assumptions, cognitive distortions, and survival-oriented shortcuts can make us overestimate difficulty, avoid uncertainty, and limit ourselves before we have properly tried. They discuss: why believing you are inferior can become a self-fulfilling prophecy how early learning difficulties are often misread as lack of talent why familiar discomfort can feel safer than uncertain change why growth means expanding the comfort zone, not living outside it how curiosity differs from identity signalling the value of evaluating a decision process separately from its outcome a practical question for gaining distance from your own situation A conversation about awareness, perspective, and learning to notice the assumptions that influence how we think, decide, and act.