You make 35,000 decisions a day. About 70 of them will change your life.
Are you trained to handle them?

Most people assume they will figure it out when the moment arrives. They don’t. The leaders who perform under pressure — the ones who make the right call when time is short, information is limited, and the consequences are real — got there through training. This book is that training.

Training Your Mind for Split-Second Decisions introduces the TLC Framework — developed by Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner across more than 30 years of emergency medicine and executive leadership. TLC stands for Time constraint, Limited information, and Critical consequences: the three conditions that define every genuine split-second decision. This book teaches you how to recognize them instantly, respond without hesitation, and lead with conviction when others are still deciding.

This Book Will Teach You How To:

• Recognize a split-second decision the moment it arrives — before hesitation has a chance to take hold
• Apply the TLC Framework to make fast, high-quality decisions under time pressure with limited information
• Manage decision fatigue — the scientifically documented decline in decision quality that gets every leader eventually
• Understand how your physiology and psychology affect your decisions — and how to take control of both
• Build the daily disciplines that make excellent split-second decisions automatic over time
• Lead with conviction in crisis — not because you have all the answers, but because you are trained to decide

Who This Book Is For

• Executives and organizational leaders who face high-consequence, time-pressured decisions as part of their daily role
• Healthcare professionals, first responders, and anyone who operates where the wrong call carries a real cost
• Business owners and team leaders who need a simple, proven system for making decisions faster and better
• Anyone who wants to go from reacting to deciding — with clarity, speed, and confidence

About the Author

Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, Harvard-trained public health expert, and America’s leading authority on high-stakes decision-making. He has trained thousands of executives, healthcare leaders, first responders, pilots, athletes, and CEOs in the TLC Framework — a system built on over 30 years of real-world split-second decision experience.

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