Choosing How Mistakes Affect Our Beliefs
We make decisions every day, and some decisions are small while others go on to affect us for our entire lifetime. How we make decisions is an essential factor in determining the quality of our lives. Most people never really think about how they make decisions or wonder if there is a different or better way of doing this.
There are, however, two common ways most people process information. Each has a radically different methodology that produces different results in how we experience interactions with our environment, other people, and ourselves.
Before examining which technique you use and how it can change the quality of your life, we should remember some basic facts about how we make decisions. Most people try not to make mistakes, and we attempt to make decisions that will produce some favorable results. By this, I mean to say that we make decisions that we believe will have a particular, predictable consequence. We expect that most of our choices will be correct.
How We Make Decisions
We ascertain the most likely consequence based on our understanding, experience, and education about how the world works. We use some basic rules about how the world functions, which inform us about the results we are likely to produce when we make a specific action. For example, if we are kind to…
