I’ve been thinking lately about my decision making processes that I
utilitize for various aspects of my job and my personal life. I have to
ask myself sometimes, am I making this decision based on factual data
and measurable statistics, or am I making the decision purely to
satisfy my ego? Think about the many decisions you make in a given day
and you’ll see what I mean. Though I am not sure what brought this
question to my mind the last few days, I am glad to have it lurking
there now.
Many of you critical thinkers out there are probably saying “of course,
any idiot would know that.” But that’s just it, even though I like to
think that most of my decisions are based on critical thinkers, many
people make decisions based on wanting to fulfill their own objectives
and not necessarily those of the people the decisions affect. Not only
that, but sometimes, if they would stop to think about the decision and
look at it critically, they would be far less likely to make wrong
decisions or decisions that cause more headache than they needed to.
Maybe I’m just being very philosophical tonight. I guess I’ll sit back
and ponder tonight and leave sharing my thoughts for another time.