Distance.

Psychologist Yaacov Trope argues that psychological distance may be one of the single most important steps you can take to improve thinking and decision-making.

Step 1: Step Back.

We step back each time we move to the next step in our decision making process.

Stepping back can be literal (pushing our chair back during a meeting, leaving the office, going for a walk) or temporal (pausing for one second, one hour, one day …).

It can be social (spending time alone).

It can be taking a different point of view.

Each tine we step back - we liberate ourselves from the limits of that moment.

Revealing previously hidden pathways.