How to use the Wheel Spinner Random Decision
- A user inserts the inputs.
- Users can insert the inputs one by one by clicking the + button or return the key from your device.
- Users can use the list tool which can directly insert a list of inputs by clicking this icon.
- Lists of inputs are inserted and displayed. You can change the input's value, or hide an input or delete an input here.
- The user clicks the Spin button from the random wheel to start spinning the wheel.
- Picker Wheel will announce the choice selected on a dialog when done.
- The user chooses one of the action modes towards the choice selected.
- Users can change the spin behavior, sound, confetti, and color settings at the Tool Settings section.
- Users can sign up for an account to enjoy more benefits, e.g. data sharing across multiple devices.
Making Decisions with Wheel Spinner
Taking a walk and letting the traffic lights determine where your walk goes is a perfectly harmless way to use randomness - depending on how safe your neighborhood is.
Using it for more complex decisions should be approached with far more caution. If you are torn between two decisions, sometimes flipping a coin for a choice can be helpful. The answer often becomes apparent during the flip.
The pressure of an imminent decision being decided by the coin often makes your brain focus and deliver an answer. It’s a little psychological trick that can help you decide between two options.
Ways to Make Decisions
One of the important factors in making a decision is figuring out what you’re thinking. Here are a couple of suggestions to keep in mind when weighing options.
1. Ask the Lazy Question.
You just sat down at the table to have supper and you briefly think about how the food would go well with hot sauce but you decide not to get up and get it. The question you should ask yourself before making that decision is “Am I being lazy?”
In other words, am I rationalizing my decision and saying I don’t need the hot sauce, or am I just being too lazy to get up and walk ten feet? If the answer comes back as “being lazy” then make your decision be the one that isn’t lazy.
Make it be the decision you want but requires some effort. This question can surprisingly apply to lots of different situations.
2. Long Term vs Short Term Decisions.
One of how we sometimes make wrong decisions is in choosing the option that delivers quick results instead of choosing the answer that delivers better results but on a much longer time frame. Sometimes you need to be able to move towards something without reward for a long time. Again, making your inner dialogue clearer will help here.
Being able to see your thought process and navigate that decision tree efficiently will help you make better decisions.
The decision often doesn’t rely on facts but instead, they rely on clarifying how we feel about the facts of the situation. I hope between this advice and the random decision-maker you come to a reasonable conclusion.