Recommended Preface to "Learn Decision-Making from NASA, Who Can't Make Errors and Can Manage Risks Best": Make good use of decisions to help you realize your dreams in life

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When you think of decision-making, what images come to your mind? Is it a group of entrepreneurs and politicians who are busy with paperwork and dealing with all kinds of things? Or are your friends and family planning their annual travel plans and busy discussing the itinerary? Well, these seemingly familiar scenes are of course related to decision-making.

You and I live in a world full of complexity and uncertainty, from what to eat for lunch to how to formulate a company’s R&D plan? It feels like we are making decisions all the time. Decision-making sounds a bit unpredictable, but it is so close to our lives and work.

Wikipedia tells us that the so-called [decision-making] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%B3%E7%AD%96) (Decision-making) is a cognitive process in the field of psychology. After this process, each of us can decide on actions or opinions that the individual wants to express among various options based on his own beliefs or reasoning based on comprehensive factors.

Before making a decision, decision-makers often face different plans and options, as well as a certain degree of uncertainty about the consequences of their decisions; decision-makers need to weigh the pros, cons, and risks of various options in order to achieve the optimal decision result.

After reading this, I wonder if you will think: making a decision is a big deal, a troublesome and brain-consuming thing? Based on my observations in the past few years, I have surprisingly found that many friends around me are really afraid of making decisions! Or I should say, it’s not that these friends don’t know how to make decisions, but they don’t know how to make an excellent decision in a subjective and objective environment based on the resources and intelligence they have at hand.

It is true that the process of decision analysis is an art and a science in itself. I recall that when I was studying at the National Taiwan University Institute of Industrial Engineering (https://ems.ntu.edu.tw/), several professors taught us how to use decision trees, sensitivity analysis and other techniques to conduct decision analysis. To this day, I still remember the earnest teachings of my professors, asking us to carefully select tools to verify values ​​and assess risks.

If you want to ask me, is decision analysis difficult? Well, that’s really difficult. Not only must we be familiar with the complex background and context of relevant matters, we must also be able to adapt to the time and local conditions, and we also need the assistance of tools and data.

However, I just recently discovered that New Paradise Publishing House is about to publish a [good book] written by Shingo Nakamura, a Japanese innovation and cultivation enterprise consultant. %AE%E9%A0%AD%E8%84%B3%E9%9B%86%E5%9B%A3%EF%BC%AE%EF%BC%A1%EF%BC%B3%EF%BC%A1%E3%81%AB%E5%AD%A6%E3%81%B6%E6%B1%BA%E6%96%AD% E6%8A%80%E6%B3%95%E2%80%95%E4%B8%8D%E5%8F%AF%E8%83%BD%E3%81% AE%E5%A3%81%E3%82%92%E7%A0%B4%E3%82%8B%E6%80%9D%E8%80%83%E3% 81%AE%E5%8A%9B-%E4%B8%AD%E6%9D%91-%E6%85%8E%E5%90%BE-ebook/dp/B01LWVN0GB) “[Learn decision-making from NASA, which cannot make mistakes and is best at managing risks] (https://goo.gl/Mvmy1z)”. It is easy to see from the title that this book takes into account the author’s own academic experience, and uses five cases from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (https://www.nasa.gov/) (NASA) to introduce the principles of decision-making analysis to readers in an orderly manner, and recommends many appropriate methods and tools.

This book The author Shingo Nakamura graduated from the Waseda University Institute of Technology. After graduation, he entered the Graduate School of Engineering at Stanford University to obtain a master’s degree in aeronautics. He also obtained an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. With a background in engineering and business, coupled with his experience in consulting for industry companies in Japanese think tanks and American investment banks, he can be said to be a cross-field talent with both theoretical and practical experience.

Usually, he specializes in assisting new start-ups to identify factors affecting future operations in uncertain situations, so he also has his own unique views and insights on decision-making analysis. Shingo Nakamura believes that management is an excellent way to combat uncertainty, so when we need to make decisions, we should naturally be actively involved and managed. Therefore, in this book, the author uses wonderful cases such as NASA’s space mission to fight uncertainty to explain every bit of decision-making analysis to everyone.

At first glance, NASA seems a bit far away from us ordinary people. But little did they know that in October 1957, the Soviet Union launched mankind’s first artificial satellite, Companion. This satellite not only shocked the Western world, but also ushered in the space age.

In fact, aerospace technology has already entered our daily lives. Maybe one day, you will also have the opportunity to go into space! Recently, I often think of the movie adapted from the book “October Sky: A NASA Scientist’s Dream-Chasing Boyhood” (https://goo.gl/PoZQVg). There is a classic dialogue in the movie that says: Sometimes, a dream is enough to light up the entire sky.

Sometimes, one dream is enough to light up the whole sky.

There is a saying that “If you have a dream in life, build your dream with a solid foundation.” If you want to realize your dream, you must start by making feasible decisions. I am happy to recommend to you the good book “[Learn Decision-Making from NASA, Who Can’t Make Errors and Best Manages Risks] (https://goo.gl/Mvmy1z)”. Let’s learn to be a smart decision-maker together!

★ Photo Credit: NASA

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