My topic, I’m thinking, is going to be around decisions and decision making throughout our lives from early on in our lives all throughout our adulthood. It’s going to include the evolution of our decisions throughout our lives, i.e. How much control we have over our decisions throughout our lives, the varying degrees of how our decisions impact our lives and the lives of those around us, consequences and hind sights of the decisions that we make, rushing into rash decisions vs highly calculated decisions and everywhere in between, and the severity of impact of our decisions and how it correlates with our age or, more importantly, where we find ourselves in our life.
The articles that I’ve read have been heavily based on enhancing our decisions making process in order to make the best decisions possible. Many of them have focused on group/team decision making and conversations that the teams have surrounding decisions that need to be made. I would like to focus more on personal decisions and the evolution of them along with the impact they have on our lives, and i can see ways of utilizing the team decision making process and applying them to that concept. among the practices of effective decision making is avoid confusing discussions that detracts us from the decision by laying blame on anything or anyone in a predicament that we find ourselves in. it’s more important to focus on the situation and decision that needs to be made. this can obviously apply to a group decision but can definitely also apply to a personal situation. in my writing, i want to investigate how getting lost in details and blame can effect our decisions, be it positive, negative, or not exactly one or the other.
I have also read the idea that the decisions that we make are a reflection of the values that we hold. This holds up best when the decisions are carefully calculated and all options are weighed. This can bring into the conversation, decisions that we end up regretting, as they may have been made in ignorance of all of our values our values. Perhaps they only take into consideration our value of pride, or what ever, and ignore more core values that we were ignoring because we were so caught up in oner things.
One of the articles brought me to a book that i bought from amazon. The book is about propaganda and how we are coerced into making some decisions through that process. this idea seems totally relevant to the time that we live in and i am thinking that this prospect may play more of a role in my topic than i had originally thought. I will only know once i get the book and start reading.
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