The Choice Point

Whether we choose the burger and fries over the salad, top-down management over collaboration, or leniency over rigour in combatting climate change, it all comes down to the same thing: the choice point. The moment at which we can choose to take an action that we know will undermine our success, or we can take a new action that will move us closer to our desired goal. The choice point explains how we experience thousands of thoughts every day: 80 per cent are negative, while only 5 per cent are new thoughts.

And we make most of our decisions within two seconds, using mental autopilot systems that we've built through years of experiences. So, some of our thoughts (like quitting during a challenge) easily compromise our goals. Joanna Grover and Jonathan Rhodes present a user-friendly model to help us lengthen our choice point and go from passenger to driver of our own minds.