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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work shows the readers how to make sound decisions in life and work. Summary of the Book Dealing with important decisions is always very difficult. We tend to weigh up all the pros and cons, take lots of advice but ultimately how can we be sure that we have made all the right choices in life? In Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, bestselling authors, Chip and Dan Heath deal with complex problem of decision making. According to the authors, our brain has its shortcomings and we have a tendency to think irrationally and this has an impact on the choices and decisions we make. In the book, the authors draw on extensive studies and the latest research to offer precise and practical tools which can help us improve our decision-making both at work and at home. About the Authors Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He completed his BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his PhD in Psychology from Stanford. Dan Heath is an American author, speaker, columnist and professor at Duke University. The Heath brothers have co-authored several books including Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard.