What do you know at your current stage of life that you wish you knew earlier?
Asked by JP Stein 27 days ago in Small Business, Organizational Development Closed
Your public answer:
“Dear JP, I wish I new sooner that the process of knowing is less important than the process of believing. This is so first because credibility is the first issue of evaluating evidence and reasons that are offered in human communication. Second, because in making a decision, what we believe counts more than what we know. Once I got this, I understood not only where the starting point is, but why trust is so important and significant. We entrust our very selves to others who are credible enough to see our blind spots, of which I have many. John”
The Decision-Maker's Path (tm)...
...concentrates on the center of the issue to be decided from various perspectives along the way
Discovering the centers ...
... of embedded insights
High Noon
Is it time to decide?
It's A Wonderful Life!
How are decisions made?
Witness
Decision-making comes in part from what we witness.
Experiment in Terror
Decision-making continues despite our fears.
The Collector
Enslaved by others?
Lawrence of Arabia
Pursuing single-minded decisions
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Double-minded issues.
Casablanca
Why is Rick reluctant to be heroic?
Hamlet
Why wait so long to decide?
The Birdman of Alcatraz
Being happy is a decision.
Bull Durham
What's so wise about baseball?
The Godfather
Might makes right decisions?
The Magic Flute
Learn how best to decide?
Bourne Identity
Regain your identity?
Manhunter
Lose your identity?
Body Heat
Sex and decision-making?
A Man for All Seasons
Decision-making: self-government?
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Radical decision-maker?
Rules of the Game
Conventional decision-making?
Kiss of the Spider Woman
How powerful stories impact decision-making?
Citizen Kane
Money makes decisions?
Patton
Might or right?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Power dictates decision-making?
Mr. Brooks
Dis-integrated decision-making
12 Angry Men
Fallacies and decision-making
The Exorcist
Self-deception and decision-making
The Decalogue
Morality and decision-making?
Seven
Sin and decision-making?
The Passion of the Christ
Decision-making: taking up your cross?
The Lives of Others
Where do insights come from?
House of Games
Where do oversights come from?
Siddhartha
Can truth contradict Truth?
Field of Dreams
Dreams and decision-making
Cyrano de Bergerac
Why tell your decision as a story?
Children of a lesser god
Signs of decision-making
The Last Temptation of Christ
Imagination and decision-making
Jesus of Nazareth
Traditional decision-making?
In the Line of Fire
Second chance at decision-making?
The Departed
Refusing to make a decision?
Downfall
Destructive decision-making
Schindler's List
Constructive decision-making
Paint Your Wagon
Decision-making "Pardners"
The Shawshank Redemption
Redemptive decision-making
To Kill A Mockingbird
Justice and decision-making
Romero
Decision-making to die for
Doctor Zhivago
Decision-making to live for
The Lord of the Rings
Decision-making to fight for!
Chariots of Fire
Decision-making and enthusiasm
Cinderella Man
Decision-making and family
The Gospel of John
Jesus: The right decision?
John Paul II
"Be Not Afraid"
Decision-making: like climbing ...
a spiral staircase...one step at a time.
John Darrouzet
Special Counsel for Decision-Makers
1 comment:
What a terrific question! And it begs another question: what is knowing? Is it simply a set of instructions that if followed will lead to a desired outcome? Is it the ability to implement useful procedures? Or, is this more the knowledge of what is to be attended to. What do we ignore? What do we value? Our attention is selective. What we attend to becomes a culturally or environmentally conditioned response.
I'm in my late 50's. For the last several years, I've been going through a tremendous creative personal growth spurt. I wish I would have known more about somatic education (formative psychology) as a young person. I would have liked to understand much earlier what it is to live in the body. Sadly, our culture ignores the body. We educate the head. We can articulate abstract concepts but we generally do a poor job of understanding how to achieve personal satisfaction through development of a personal world.
Ashley Montague once said: the mark of an educated man is one who has overcome the limitations of the educational system. One can nod in agreement without really knowing what this meant. Montague was teaching physicians and lamented the narrowness of what was passed off as education.
I would have liked to have had more self-understanding earlier. This would have allowed me to recognize and understand other people better.
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