What should older generation teach to younger generation?

What should older generation teach to younger generation?
Asked by Janne Mikkola 2 months ago in Mentoring, Ethics Closed
Your public answer:
“Dear Janne, While all of the answers above are important, the real difficulty younger generations have had for a long time is a most telling one. They are taught that they have the freedom to choose and are presented with many predetermined options, which in effect belies the exercise of their real freedom. They are also taught how to make judgments, given sets of discovered and scientifically verified facts and sets of criteria supported by sets of validated reasons from isolated disciplines. They thus learn how to readily dismiss personal intuition and commonsense anecdotes and how to ignore their presumed and unexamined assumptions. Nevertheless, learning how to make judgments about the past and choices about the present are not the most significant lessons we all want to learn, regardless of our age. The most significant lesson is how to make a decision about the future. To state the lesson I would teach in its most succinct form, I would say that making a creative decision comes at the end of the following path of questions with the decision-makers answering them as they go along over time:

1. Where are you coming from prior to the issue arising?
2. Where are you wanting to go with the issue you are confronted with?
3. What are you waiting for?
4. What are your wise ones generally advising about the issue?
5. How are the pros and cons of your issue balancing out?
6. What are the "Powers That Be" saying about the issue?
7. What is your real agenda concerning the issue?
8. What facts and reasons are you contending with?
9. What insights and oversights are emerging?
10. How are you going to tell your decision?
11. What are you willing to risk to gain what you can only hope for with your answer?
12. What is signaling you that the decision you discern is the right one?

I call this path the Decision-Maker's Path (tm) and write blogs in my continuing effort to explore the ways in which other materials link to it. I invite you and others to join me in this exploration. Thanks for your question. John Darrouzet http://specialcounselfordecisionmakers.blogspot.com/2008/03/creative-decision-making.html”