Psychology Today | 11.04.2026 03:15
Most of us don’t learn how to make decisions without the accompanying stress and pressure, and we likely didn't have models of that. The stress and pressure reflect our investment in our decision, being only about what we intend, which would call for divine intervention. Our decision-making is always guided by unconscious biases and insufficient information. We can be haunted by the voice of early authority figures insisting upon the rightness of our decisions. When that happens, the ego can fall into a compensatory pattern, insisting on a guarantee of making the right decision.
