Week #3 Decision Making Exercise Throughout our daily routines and task we all have times when we become overwhelmed and fatigued. These decisions are usually affected due to fatigue as mentioned in the article written by John Tirony (NYT, Aug. 17,2011). This is caused from not having the amount of time dedicated to the decisions we have to make. When we have fatigue set in on the choices we have to make whether it be from lack of sleep or other causes we tend to make wasteful choices. In order to make the best decision in almost all scenarios we need to make sure that we have taken all of the steps necessary to complete the process with good judgement. These challenges tend to come for me when it is later in the days when I have exhausted all of my energy throughout the day with so many decisions and become anxious to get everything finished. This never allows me to make the best choices no matter what the situation and could always use some time to reflect on what are the true deciding factors. When I feel that I have to make a decision and believe that some form of fatigue is setting in, I need to take the time to meditate, pray and ask for assistance in the process of my decision. I will make sure that the more important decisions and task that require more thinking and time need to be addressed first rather than letting them fall so late in the day. This is when I will have to require myself to have a better timeline of task to be performed for the days in order to
People should be punished for not taking action in a life and death situation. In the article the author, Jay Sterling Silver, believes that civil liability should be established for everyone everywhere. I somewhat agree with his point because it’s the right thing to do but that’s not always the case. During a life and death situation people tend to panic and when they do they start to lose control because they are torn between taking action or calling 911 but it might be too late for that. People will act without precaution in an emergency or some will not act at all because they’re scared they might make the situation worse than what it is.
People should make decisions every day, some of those decisions are easy to make, while others are quite difficult to implement. An appropriately combined and organized decision-making process will help to control this issue and bring a positive outcome for those involved. The decision-making process may become challenging for people due to “the lack of structure and entail risk, uncertainly and conflict” (Bateman and Snell, 2012, p. 86). That is why people trying to make important personal or professional decisions should have an appropriate model to follow in order to avoid these challenges. Bateman and Snell identified six steps or stages of decision-making process
When it comes to facing challenging obstacles in both my professional and personal life I utilize the self-management strategy of “sleeping on it”. By sleeping on a challenging obstacle this creates time, patience, and provides clarity. As many, I can be very indecisive on decisions that have a big effect on my life, but I find that giving myself an extra day, week, or month to digest the situation before making a decision helps me stay in control. Time helps with self-management because it brings clarity and perspective to the thousands of indecisive thoughts swimming through my head when something is important. (Bradberry & Greaves,
I know that the more times I skip, lactic acid will build up in my legs, from my own experience this makes you fell horrible. As our bodies perform strenuous exercise, we begin to breathe faster as we attempt to move more oxygen to our working muscles. The body prefers to generate most of its energy using aerobic methods, meaning with oxygen. The cells follow the aerobic process when the blood supplies enough oxygen to the cells, which is:- Glucose+ oxygen—>Carbon Dioxide+ water+ Energy. But when the blood cannot get the needed oxygen to the cells, it has to get the energy from the glucose in another way. The cells use the anaerobic pathway; It does this then by breaking glucose down into lactic acid, Glucose—>Lactic Acid+ Energy. Lactic acid is released into the muscles when they have used up glucose stores but still have intense energy needs. Small amounts of lactic acid operate as a temporary energy source, which helps you avoid fatigue during a workout. However, a build-up of lactic acid during a workout can create burning sensations in the muscles that can slow down or halt your activity. This is not an effective energy source for long periods of exercise, so the blood takes lactic acid to the liver which coverts it back into glucose to be used in the normal aerobic process. Scientist are always looking into ways to decrease lactic acid build up in elite athletes so they can perform faster
Choosing a strategy allowed myself to identify those flaws that may make me unsuccessful as mentioned by Pink in his book Drive. According to Pink, motivation involves internal and external factors that we shelter within our lives that drive our path for success and motivate us to do all we know and want to do. I allowed myself to enter this challenge and was precisely aware of the road that I selected to fulfill my destiny, for it is after all that no road bears difficulties. It’s those obstacles of which I have succeeded to overcome that will permit me to be a winner of which we all are. I allowed myself to face such destiny head on and evade the irrational thoughts from others who seems to think that what I am doing may prove too challenging and deter my path for success. I remind them of a famous quote that I read, by the great Malcolm X of which I bear within my heart that states, “There are no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time”. After all, who says a defeat without challenges will not pose problems. J, Hammond, R. Keeney, H. Raiff in their article titled, “ The Hidden Traps of Decision Making”, states that researchers have attempted to discover how the mind function in decision making for nearly a century. Also according to Hammond, Keeney, and Raiff we have a tendency to use our unconscious routine to cope with the complexity that are
Our understanding of why flawed decisions are so common comes from work done by neuroscientists and decision scientists to understand how the brain works when faced with a set of circumstances that require a decision (Finkelstein, S., Whitehead, J., & Campbell, A. (2009).
In order to master critical thinking, the ability to question information and solve problems must be present. The crucial steps that lead to successful decision-making is not based solely on our skills and abilities, but on the strategies that help us get there. All these steps combined allow us to make solid and intelligent decisions. Research on understanding how the mind works is a continuing project at best, but the progress we have made is substantial in the areas of understanding problem-solving and decision-making.
How come you 've worked hard all day but haven 't started the one task that was most important to you? As a manager, how come your daily work schedule often falls in a heap by mid-morning?
Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! How do you make decisions? Have you ever asked yourself, “How did I make that decision?” Whether big or small, important or not so important, decision making is a process. Some people way the pros and cons while others may just flip a coin. Are decisions based on feelings, outcomes or information? Often times if we just go with our gut feeling will be miss out on important information that should be included in our decision.
The Chronicle of the Horse reached out to Larry Glefke for comment on the result of his USEF rehearing, and this is his response in full. This is his personal statement and not the opinion of The Chronicle of the Horse.
Q3. Please describe a specific occasion when you have considered a number of options before making a decision.
The decision making process includes cognitive processes that eventually lead to a choice in action while taking into consideration the alternative possibilities (Allen, Dorozenko, & Roberts, 2016). Not all choices have to lead to an action. The values and preferences of the person making the choice also comes into play when making the final decision. Problem-solving to obtain a certain goal or satisfactory by a solution is the main reason people go through the decision making process (Stefaniak, & Tracey, 2014). This process has many factors that end with one final result or solution. The decisions made can be rational or irrational and can be determined by explicit or tacit knowledge (Qingyao, Dongyu, & Weihua, 2016). Since the decision making process can be very difficult at time, psychologists have viewed the process in different perspectives to get a better understanding (Rossi, Picchi, Di Stefano, Marongiu, & Scarsini, 2015). The different perspectives include; psychological, cognitive, and normative or communicative rationality.
For the most part, our decision-making processes are either sub-conscious or made fairly quickly due to the nature of the decision before us. Most of us don't spend much time deciding what to have for lunch, what to wear, or what to watch on television. For other, more complex decisions, we need to spend more time and analyze the elements of the decision and potential consequences. To assist with this, many people employ the use of a decision-making model. Utilizing a
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