The Unmistakable Creative Podcast Breaking Free from the Plan: How Decision Engineering Can Transform Your Life with Michelle Florendo
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Jan 1, 2026 Michelle Florendo, a decision engineering expert and former management consultant, shares her transformative journey from the pressure of traditional success to embracing uncertainty. She highlights the three essential elements in decision-making: options, objectives, and information, and explains how we often confuse decision quality with the outcome. Michelle emphasizes the importance of reimagining education to teach decision skills and discusses coping with uncertainty in life, illustrating that true agency allows us to make meaningful choices.
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Following The Immigrant Plan
- Michelle describes following the immigrant 'plan': Stanford, MBA, consulting, which looked like success on paper.
- She realized she was miserable in that 'good job' and began reconciling a different path.
Three Parts Of Every Decision
- Every decision has three parts: options, objectives, and information.
- Society rarely teaches how to expand options, clarify objectives, or seek useful information.
Beyond Measurable Economic Value
- Economic decision models assume measurable value, which limits their usefulness for human choices.
- We must expand the idea of value beyond quantifiable units like money.
