The Three Drivers
Better choices begin with
understanding what drives them.
You know what you should do. So why do you avoid the conversation, defend the first idea, or fall back into the same old pattern?
Decision-making is a skill. The Three Drivers gives you a practical way to understand how you choose—and how to choose better.
Start with what shapes your view
Two principles
Perception is not reality.
We respond to what we think is happening. Experience, expectations, and emotion shape that picture—our “Screen.” Two people can face the same situation and see something very different.
What am I seeing, and what am I assuming?
All decisions are emotional.
Logic gives us options. Emotion gives those options meaning and moves us to act. Understanding what matters to us helps explain why a choice feels right—even when it works against us.
What am I trying to create or protect?
Notice what is driving the choice
Three drivers
The Robot
Your automatic habits, reactions, and shortcuts. It makes familiar tasks easy, but can keep yesterday’s patterns running in today’s situation.
Emotion
What gives a choice urgency and meaning. It moves you to create what you value or protect what feels threatened.
Logic
Your capacity to examine, question, and plan. It can help you override an automatic response—or find reasons to defend it.
All three are at work in each of us. Recognizing their influence gives you a place to intervene.
Turn understanding into action
Four skills
Drive
Connect what matters to a plan and what you do today. Turn intention into progress.
Resilience
Get triggered less often, respond more effectively, and recover faster when you are.
Curiosity
Question your first interpretation. Make room for information that could change your mind.
Collaboration
Bring in other perspectives. Build the relationships and shared commitment that help people act together.
One moment. A different choice.
A colleague challenges your idea. Your Robot reads criticism. Emotion moves to protect. Logic starts building your defense.
Now notice the pattern. Resilience helps you settle. Curiosity helps you ask, “What am I missing?” Collaboration brings their perspective into the solution. Drive brings you back to the result you both need.
That is the model in practice: a better choice in the moment that matters.
Better Choices = Better Results
For you, your team, and your organization, change starts with the next decision. The Three Drivers gives you a shared language—and skills to practice—to make that decision more deliberately.