Decision making Eco-system

Life surely is about the choices we make and not about the options we have. Most of life's life changing decisions come without a warning and as a result, one is not left with time to think and decide. Therefore most such decisions tend to be intuitive and are fueled by emotion.

Very rarely do we find ourselves with enough time to think and then decide. I think I am going through one such phase! My thoughts over the past few days have led me into hypothesizing certain aspects of decision making. Hence this post.

As popular jargon goes, decisions are either rational or intuitive and driven by emotions. There are enough and more success stories of either kind of decisions. In the process of decision making, we consult and solicit advise from a variety of quarters - collectively I call these quarters the decision making eco-system. My hypothesis has to do with this conscience keeping eco-system that we bank on.

Strong emotions of the doer propel him/her to great levels of courage, passion and perseverance - the essential traits in any success story. The same cannot hold true when the eco-system throws up emotional advise, since the doer doesn't own the emotion.

Intuitive/emotional decisions work only when the 'doer' resorts to it. When the eco-system too resorts to an intuitive approach, then certainly all is not right. For a balanced decision to happen, the eco-system needs to throw up purely rational advise while the doer could rely on both reason or a strong emotion that the issue rakes up.

While this may seem obvious, it is important to be understood. Like they say, there are no guarantees in life.

PS: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards