TThomas

Many decisions are made based on our emotions and feelings which are a result of cumulative life experiences. A person’s emotional brain is able to quickly amass all information within the brain to give a person a gut feeling, an instinct, when solving some types of problems. The more experiences a person has had in particular areas, the more a person can depend on the emotional brain to make a decision. “…Intelligent institution is the result of deliberate practice.”

The ability to use emotions and focused analysis in the right situations results in a person who continually thinks about how to think. That becomes the key to becoming better decision-making. As the author states, “This is the most astonishing thing about the human brain; it can always improve itself. Tomorrow, we can make better decisions.” To understand how our brain makes decisions is to not only better understand ourselves, but it also enables us to better understand our fellow human beings.

1. Old: John Wall doesn’t think about the next pass he just does it when it needs to be done and makes good decisions on the fly.

     New: Not thinking about the upcoming pass, John Wall spontaneously reacts and achieves his goal.

2. Old: But, what if you were told to make a life changing decision in spur the moment, could you do it?

    New: If told to, could you make a life changing decision in the spur of a moment?

3. Old: How about deciding where you go to college, or whether to join the military or not, where you could be sent out to war, putting your life on the line every day?

     New: Could you handle choosing a school, or joining the military and leave family, friends, practically your whole life?

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-staff Sgt. -Enlisted at 19 -Air borne school -Green berets -8 months outta every year gone,  green berets are like swiss army knife to the army  -Every man in family served in military -  9-11 happened.  Started college didn’t feel like he belong, been around military all his life -Been thanked more he’s been shot at -Cross trained.  -Emotionally closed off when came back from Iraq -Drank a lot at first -If you Focus on what could happen you won’t be focused on what needs to be taken care of. -Making the right decision in a split second

In just looking out Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink I’ve already found a lot of interesting things on just a brief reading Gladwell wrote about Blink . Everything I have read so far is really interesting but one thing he wrote really got my attention. He wrote, “There’s a wonderful phrase in psychology—“the power of thin slicing”—which says that as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience”

These questions determine your decision-making style as a learned or habitual manner of responding to a decision situation. Rather than being a personality trait, decision-making style is a habit-based propensity to respond in a certain way when making decisions.

The instrument measures five decision styles. A rational decision-making style reflects the use of a thorough search and evaluation of alternatives.

An intuitive decision-making style reflects the tendency to rely on hunches and feelings.

A dependent decision-making style is illustrated by a search for advice, input, and direction from others.

An avoidant decision-making style reflects the avoidance of decision-making.

Finally, a spontaneous decision-making style reflects the tendency to make snap, spur of the moment decisions

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can this be good or is it bad? really I see it as both, it depends on what the decision is about of chorse. Have you ever felt like you had a calling, something you know you just have to do, it has your name written all over it, and you feel like you could succeed beyond expectations? Moments like this I feel should be the decisions that thinking to much about it could probabaly lead you to making the wrong decision. What do you think, can thinking be bad? is going off your gut a smart choice? hmmmmmmmm

I find it crazy how the laziest person can join the military, come out and be completely changed. They are the hardest working person ever. This just blows my mind. Why does is take the such extreme actions to change someone around? Though the change is very dramatic in a positive way I find it sad that it takes such an extreme action to do so. Self discipline is one of those things that is essential to being successful in todays society.

Traditions are something I take serious, and if I’m part of a tradition I take pride in it. If it be just praying with your team before a game, certain things you do for holidays really anything. So watching these videos brings the thought of traditions. Do you join the military because your father and grandfather did, because your family is a true military family? What about collge? I have been a UK fan all my life and will be until the day I die. So what about other hard core fans? How many people come to UK because it’s a tradition for each person in your family to do so? I know there are people who do this, but I want to know why. What makes the military/ UK what it is, what draws families to follow the footsteps of one another?