How do you make decisions?
Hello, (ANS) This is a very good question, it appears a simple question on the surface but at depth is very complex. OK! In my humble opinion they way we make important decisions is really a struggle or type of dance between head (mind & brain function) and heart or emotions, feelings & the intuition that comes from the physical body. **The concept & action of "free will" is a function of the mind more than anything else, free will is what takes place when the person's ego steps aside from the decision making process. Free will is MUCH more limited than we might imagine actually. We are limited by our circumstances or the specific situation we find ourselves in. In other words non of us make choices in a complete vacuum, we make decisions that always affect our relationships with other people. That's part of the nature of being human. **The decisions we end up making are often driven more by unconscious drives than conscious reasoning. Even if those unconscious motives are NOT apparent in the short term. Ivan
How do people make decisions?
You just finished to dine at your favorite restaurant. You always loved the pasta there, and that night you ordered a nice carbonara. Although, the pasta was good, there was something that did not feel right.The pasta carbonara on your tongue and palate felt different. Your taste buds sent information back and forth, from your brain to your mouth, hundreds of times per second. What happened?In short, your expectation has not been met. Therefore, your Midbrain started to release less dopamine, which in turn made the memory of that experience less pleasurable.The next time you will have to decide to go somewhere, the experience you had with that carbonara dish will influence your decision-making process. In other words, your brain assesses repeatedly what happens, through your body, based on the expectations that you had about a certain situation.When the expectation is different than actual experience, this creates either a positive or negative gap, which needs to be filled. To fill that gap your brain will release more or less dopamine, according to the situation.For instance, in the previous example, since the expectation was higher than the actual experience this will created a negative gap, which was by the brain, with the release of less dopamine, that eventually allowed the expectation to align to the actual experience again.In short, the decision making system is a sort of feedback loop, which continuously adjusts according to the gap between expectation (how you imagined the future experience to be) and the actual experience.To know more about decision-making check my answer Gennaro Cuofano's answer to How do I make right decisions? How can I improve my decision-making skills?
How did the ojibwa tribe make decisions?
These links should help - good luck: http://www.airpi.org/research/tdlead.htm... http://www.georgeaugustkoch.com/Writings... Keep in mind in your research that there are various spellings (Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Ojibway).
What guides your decision making?
Here's my personal theory. Emotion and reason are the two forces that we use to make decisions. We make our best decisions when we know exactly what we want and think very hard about how to get it. Moving to either extreme can cause problems. A person who uses reason or emotion almost exclusively would have trouble making good decisions. So, let's buy a car. We're tired of this one. We've had it for a while. It needs some work. And that new Jaguar would look really nice wrapped around us. Man we'd look good in that! OK, so emotion is telling us to buy a car. At this point a lot of people would just say "what the hell, I'm only looking" and drop by the Jaguar dealership. At which point salesmen who are specifically designed to deactivate your capacity to reason will sell you a car. At thousands above invoice. With 5% markup on the interest rate. And give you $12 dollars for your trade. Some people, however, would begin to ask themselves questions. Do I really need a new car? Can I afford it? Can I fix the old one? Is the Jaguar what I really need? These people would then begin to reason very carefully to see what the impacts of each decision would be. And just because you start with emotion, doesn't mean you have to leave it behind once reason kicks in. You can consult emotion again. For example, "well, we do have another child coming, and my wife would probably like to get a bigger car for the family. Instead of getting something for me, I'll think about what might be best for our family." Jung talks about some of this with his Thinking and Feeling functions. He calls them the judging functions.
What should we do when we get stuck in making decisions?
The level of your decision-making depends on the level of your competency.There are two kinds of decision-makers in this world :Those who take a decision and make it right- Careful! I know it sound kinda cool but these kinds of people are extremely confident that they can handle both sides of the coin i.e, they are highly competent in facing the consequences. They are like-”Fuck It! I can deal with either one.” They simply go with their instinct. Most often they do not have to resort to Plan B.In psychology, these kinds of people are called satisficers. They can make decisions quickly and don’t dwell on the outcomes. These guys are not crippled by the question of “What If?”Those who think a lot about a decision , go through all the options before finally settling- I hate this class of decision-makers. Why? This is simply because they are incompetent.In psychology, these kinds of people are called maximizers. Maximizers dwell a lot about a decision. They spend considerably more time in the anxious and stressed decision-making process than satisficers. They are highly likely to play out every scenario– stressing over “what if’s?” .Because of time constraints , maximizers often feel they were not given suitable time to fully comprehend a situation before making a decision, hence, ultimately end up less happy with their decision than satisficers.It may seem that maximizers have a better decision-making rate but No! Their overthinking kills the game. Statistically, the satisficers are not only happier with their decision but also more likely to be really good at it.So decide for yourself what you are . Are you competent or incompetent?If you are incompetent, life is not gonna be good to you, let alone the decisions. And once you are competent, go with the first class of people. They lead better and more fulfilling lives.
How can I make confident and correct decisions?
Ok, here's my guaranteed guide to making the correct decision every time*:Make the decision yourself. When you let other people make decisions for you, they're making decisions based on their own hopes, dreams, feelings, experience, etc. While they might have your best interests at heart, only you know you really well. So make the decision yourself.Take advice and counsel from everyone you can. Just because other people aren't making decisions for you doesn't mean that you shouldn't listen to other people's experience. Pay attention to what they say. Do a lot more listening and observing than talking. But, still, it's your decision at the end of all of that listening and talking.Make the decision with conviction. When you waffle, no one believes you (including yourself). So make the decision boldly, and with lots of conviction. If it turned out to have a bad outcome, reverse course boldly. Mistakes are the most correct decisions. There are decisions that you make that just work out well because you're lucky, but the best decisions -- the ones that turn out to be most correct for your life -- are usually the ones that seem to have bad outcomes. So know that when you're making a decision, there are two versions of correct: the thing that gives you an immediate positive outcome, and the one that will give you a longer-term positive outcome. Any decision you make that doesn't cause you or someone you care about to suffer serious bodily harm falls under these two categories. Finally, don't make decisions that will cause you or people you care about serious bodily harm. This way, all of your decisions will be correct. Of course, causing bodily harm is in general a really bad idea anyway, and hopefully, none of your decisions revolve around this.Thanks for the A2A!*Guarantee only valid yesterday.
What is correct: I made that decision or I took that decision?
Thanks for A2A. :)Well, both are being used depending upon the scenario, I think.Like you “take a decision” if you have to choose one thing from the available choices. Because, you do not create/generate choices, so you take a decision, you never make one.But then also, there’s always a “decision-making process”, I’ve never heard of a “decision-taking process”.So, you use “make a decision” when there’s a whole lot of thinking done in the process. It is put together, or made.