Chapter 9
Art Making
Intelligent
Nourah Alsubaie 200900021
Bashayer Alnahdi 200700531
Muneera Alkhaldi 200901568
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
Introduction
To live is to act. To act is to decide.
THINKING GLOBALLY ABOUT YOUR LIFE:
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To become effective
decision makers
requires that you gain
insight into your life
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.
BIG DECISION:
There are two kinds:
 Those that have more or less obvious long-term
consequences.
 Those whose long-term consequences must be
"discovered"
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.
RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR AN IMPORTANT DECISION:
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Much of the worst decision making is the result
of the failure to recognize that the decision is at
hand.
ACCURATELY RECOGNIZING THE ALTERNATIVES:
•Many
decisions go awry because of failure to identify the
alternative
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This failure comes in two forms:
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Thinking unrealistically
Thinking too narrowly
PUTTING MORE TIME INTO YOUR DECISION- MAKING:
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If we don’t make time for
reflective thought about our
decision, we cannot improve
them
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A real change of behavior
requires some thought about
our present behavior
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Recognize that we lose a
tremendous amount of time
through bad-decision making
BEING SYSTEMATIC:
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People need to think through their major habits
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They need to give time to the decisions they
make around major needs: eating, and exercise
habits
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People have to think critically about how the
habits they develop in every part of life
DEALING WITH ONE MAJOR DECISION AT A
TIME:
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Speed thinking usually does not help us think well through
our decision
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After making a bad decision, we sometimes say we didn’t
have enough time to think through the problem
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In general, the more deliberate our approach to decision
making is the more time we spend thinking
DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR IGNORANCE:
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We are ignorant about most of our decision making
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Being able to recognize and face the things we don’t know
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We tend not to know what we need to know to make effective
decision
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
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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 !!
For example: in our early life we are not in a
position to exercise significant control over
our decision making!
The concept: if the decision, behavior
patterns and habits developed in
adolescence that is shaped from a lifetime.
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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
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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
Thank
You