Tuesday, February 3, 2009

A Case Of Too Many Options Spoilt The Decision

We make decisions everyday, conciously or unconciously, and it's only natural.

Sometimes we ponder over a long time to make a decision and it becomes more complex when there are more options to choose from. By the time we make the final decision our original objective may have changed without us realising it rendering the decision made useless or ineffective.

The more options we have the further is the distraction from our goal as we are not as rational as we would like to think. Because of greed and/or fear we keep as many options open as possible which many are irrelevant to what we want to achieve.

Often the simplest decision-making process is the best decision process, like flipping a coin or striking out some options in order to open the right option we want to choose.

Taking a step back and ask ourselves what do we really want would, perhaps, help us to make the best decision because we are not as rational as we would like to think.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

rather well written...but...
hmm..is this in relation to anything in specific?

Benkaiser said...

Just some thinking during my flight back to Melbourne =)

 
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