{"id":790,"date":"2008-12-03T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/decision-making-for-the-21st-century\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:33:35","slug":"decision-making-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/decision-making-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Making For The 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Traditional decision making processes and models are falling behind the fast pace of this new century, both for individuals and organizations.\u00a0 Many of us are aware of this situation, but are feeling lost without a new approach to make good reliable decisions fast. In this article I will introduce you to a new approach to decision making; all you need is an open mind and a little practice.<\/p>\n

A History of Decision Making<\/h2>\n

Before we go further, let’s review how you or your parents \/ grandparents made decisions.\u00a0 This is admittedly a big blanket statement, but I think you will get the idea:<\/p>\n

19<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> century: <\/strong>You typically didn’t make decisions yourself.\u00a0 Someone else who was more educated and\/or had more authority, such as political or religious leaders, made the decisions and you just followed.\u00a0 Individual thinking and decision making were discouraged for the cause of the groups.<\/p>\n

20<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> century: <\/strong>Mass education made it possible for many of us to think for ourselves and make decisions.\u00a0 While there were many decision making techniques, most were based on logic taught at schools and other educational organizations.<\/p>\n

21<\/strong>st<\/strong><\/sup> century: <\/strong>We start noticing the problems of traditional reasoning methods and decision making techniques based on such logic.<\/p>\n

There are two major methods of reasoning: induction<\/strong> and deduction<\/strong>.\u00a0 Induction involves gathering data to come up with the conclusion, or really just the possibility of the conclusion.\u00a0 While no amount of data is enough to ensure the conclusion, we typically spend time gathering lots of data when we try to use inductive reasoning.\u00a0 So it takes time.\u00a0 In this fast paced world, it’s quite likely that the situation has changed already by the time we make decision based on induction.<\/p>\n

Deduction doesn’t rely of gathered premises but it relies on logical premises.\u00a0 In short, it assumes certain premises to be true in order for it to work.\u00a0 But the advance of science is now questioning even basic ideas such as linear time.
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Intuitive Decision Making \u2013 The New Possibility<\/h2>\n

Is there a better faster way?\u00a0 I think so, and it’s based on intuition.\u00a0 In intuitive decision making, you receive intuition and verify it by logic and data.\u00a0 You are still using your thinking mind and hard facts, but they are secondary and work as backup system.<\/p>\n

It can be really fast to receive intuition.\u00a0 The topic of developing intuition is huge and outside the scope of this article, but I can say that we all have intuitive ability, the potential to use intuition.\u00a0 Some of you are already using intuition, consciously or unconsciously.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the challenge here is if it is possible to utilize intuition in our decision making. The challenge is if we can be open to its possibility.\u00a0 When I was interviewed by Davina Haisell about intuition<\/span><\/a>, there was a comment that said, \u201cIntuition\u2026sometimes I doubt it. Why? Because, almost without fail – it is right\u2026 I guess that\u2019s a hard thing for me to get over, being able to fully trust my intuition.\u201d<\/p>\n

I respect the honesty of this commenter.\u00a0 I know it is scary to trust intuition.\u00a0 Our educational system discourages anything that can’t be \u201cproved\u201d.<\/p>\n

Learning To Trust Our Intuition<\/h2>\n

I think the process of learning to make intuitive decisions is analogous to the aforementioned history of decision making.<\/p>\n

Early childhood: <\/strong>You didn’t make many decisions.\u00a0 Someone else with authority made them for you, and you were expected to follow.<\/p>\n

School age and adulthood, until you realize the problem of logical decision making: <\/strong>You make decisions based on the logical decision making techniques that were approved by schools and most of societal organizations.\u00a0 We may had clear intuitive sense as a child, but most of us stop using it as we get conditioned in the educational system.\u00a0 Change can happen when you realize the limitation of logical decision making.<\/p>\n

Intuitive decision making is self-empowering: <\/strong>Look back the time you had to make critical decisions in your life, such as deciding on which job offer to take.\u00a0 Did you have a silent knowing that one option is more desirable even though it didn’t seem so on the logical level?\u00a0 Did you go for your gut feeling or did you ignore it?\u00a0 And what was the consequence?<\/p>\n

Making decision intuitively empowers you.\u00a0 When you make decisions based on logic alone, you rely on someone else’s theories, processes, and models.\u00a0 It is you who is making the decision in the doing, but you are always subject to other authorities.\u00a0 So you may keep wondering if you made the right decision, or worry if you had enough data, enough knowledge and skills, enough education, to make the decision.\u00a0 Not so in intuitive decision making.\u00a0 In intuition, you just know, and you are your own authority.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about intuitive decision making?\u00a0 If you have any questions, please write in the comment.<\/p>\n

About the writer:<\/strong> Akemi Gaines is the <\/em>Akashic Record Reading<\/em><\/span><\/a> specialist who shares both practical and metaphysical tips on her blog, <\/em>Yes to Me<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em> \u2013 Spiritual Healing and Growth for Greater Success.\u00a0 You can subscribe to her blog <\/em>here<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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