In Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Gary Klein explains how experts make reliable snap decisions over novices.
RPD Model
The recognition-primed decision (RPD) model integrates two processes:

How decision makers size up the situation
How they evaluate the course of action by imagining it

There’s 3 basic variations of the RPD:

Simple match - how have I solved this before? This is a typical case. The decision maker recognizes a situation and knows the goals, cues, expectancies, and actions. “if … then,”
Diagnosing the situation - which situation is this closest to this? This doesn’t …

In Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, Gary Klein writes:
The difference between singular and comparitive evaluation is linked to the research of Herbert Simon, who won a Nobel Prize for economics. Simon (1957) identified a decision strategy he calls satisficing: Selecting the first option that works. Satisficing is different from optimizion, which means trying to come up with the best strategy. Optimizing is hard and it takes a long time. Satisficing is more efficient. The singular evaluation strategy is based on satisficing. Simon used the concept of satisficing to …

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Is the fear of failure holding you back? Maybe not. Maybe it’s actually the fear of success. In The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield writes about how we fear becoming who we truly are.
You’re Capable of More
Pressfield writes:
We fear discovering more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us.
Why Fear Success?
Pressfield writes:
We fear this because, if it’s true, then …