1. The Art Of Making Intelligent Decisions
Chapter 9
The Art Of Making Intelligent Decisions
Nourah Alsubaie
Bashayer Alnahdi
Muneera Alkhaldi

2. Out line Introduction Thinking globally about your life
Evaluating patterns in decision-making
big decisions
the logic of decision –making
recognize the need for an important decision
accurately recognize the alternative
putting more time into your decision-making
being systematic
dealing with one major decision at a time
Developing Knowledge of your Ignorance
Dimensions of Decision Making
Regularly Re-Articulate and Reevaluate Your Goals, Purposes, and Needs
The Early Decisions
Adolescent Decisions
Early Adult Decisions
Conclusion

3. Introduction
To live is to act. To act is to decide.

4. Thinking globally About Your Life:
To become effective decision makers requires that you gain insight into your life

5. Evaluating Patterns in Decision-Making
Some common patterns of irrational or unethical decision-making are:
Deciding to behave in ways that undermine our welfare;
Deciding not to engage in activities that contribute to our long-term welfare;
Deciding to behave in ways that undermine another's welfare.
Deciding to associate with people who encourage us to act against our own welfare or the welfare of others.

6. Big Decision:
There are two kinds:
Those that have more or less obvious long-term consequences.
Those whose long-term consequences must be "discovered"

7. The Logic of Decision-Making
The 4 keys to sound decision-making are:
To recognize that you face an important decision.
To accurately identify the alternatives.
To logically evaluate the alternatives.
To have the self-discipline to act on the best alternatives.

8. Recognize the need for an important decision:
Much of the worst decision making is the result of the failure to recognize that the decision is at hand.

9. Accurately Recognizing the Alternatives:
Many decisions go awry because of failure to identify the alternative
This failure comes in two forms:
Thinking unrealistically
Thinking too narrowly

10. Putting More Time into Your Decision- Making:
If we don’t make time for reflective thought about our decision, we cannot improve them
A real change of behavior requires some thought about our present behavior
Recognize that we lose a tremendous amount of time through bad-decision making

11. Being Systematic: People need to think through their major habits
They need to give time to the decisions they make around major needs: eating, and exercise habits
People have to think critically about how the habits they develop in every part of life

12. Dealing with One Major Decision at a Time:
Speed thinking usually does not help us think well through our decision
After making a bad decision, we sometimes say we didn’t have enough time to think through the problem
In general, the more deliberate our approach to decision making is the more time we spend thinking

13. Developing Knowledge of Your Ignorance:
We are ignorant about most of our decision making
Being able to recognize and face the things we don’t know
We tend not to know what we need to know to make effective decision

14. Dimensions of Decision-Making:
To be effective and rational decision maker:
Figure out the information you need
Carefully analyze the information you collect
Figure out your options for action
Evaluate your options in the situation

15. Regularly Re-Articulate and Reevaluate Your Goals, Purposes, and Needs
For example: if you are in poor relationship with a person and do not make the decision either to leave the relationship or to take active steps to improve it !!

16. The Early Decision: (2-11 Years of Age)
For example: in our early life we are not in a position to exercise significant control over our decision making!

17. Adolescent Decisions: (12-17 Years of Age)
The concept: if the decision, behavior patterns and habits developed in adolescence that is shaped from a lifetime.

18. Early Adult Decisions: (18-35 Years of Age)
Young adults tend to look to other young adults for their lead.
They are strongly influenced by the mass media.
The behavior patterns that results from these decisions come from short and long term problems

19. Conclusion The patterns that underlie our decision making
The big decisions
Our ultimate and most primary goals
The alternatives available to us
The nine dimensions of decision making
Knowledge of the major decisions of our childhood and adolescence

20. Thank
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