The Importance of Salience in Decision Making

I think of decision making thinking about the worst case scenario. Well, I don't know if that really could something could be bad. Therefore, I'm not going to do it period. And that's like now how we tend to think about decision making. We try to really try, we think about expectations, not necessarily min and max decision making. Do you find a big difference between what we're living? Now, how does taking place in people's minds versus that?