Decision Making
 

As I age, I become more comfortable with my decision-making. In fact, dealing with the short-term pain of a good decision disappears most of the time almost immediately now.

The exquisite and precise joy of actualizing one's own good judgement is something young people need to be made aware of. Good judgement comes from wisdom but wisdom cannot be taught.

Young people need to witness wisdom. For the young people in my life, I am befallen the weighty task of showing it.

To my delight, it seems to have become an easy task.

I like to say that experience is the sum of our mistakes.

Experience is when you learn from a mistake you made

Wisdom is when you learn from a mistake someone else made

I think one (hopefully) reaches a point of maturity and experience where you realize that you can never know everything about a situation. Do you due diligence, examine the quality of the data, and make the best choice you can. If you make a bad one, learn from the experience.

learning from experience is wisdom........

I learnt to read. Then I could read to learn.

The four stages of learning:
Unconscious incompetence
Conscious incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence

I got nothing but this.

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Gold right there.

Teach to count and teach to read. Can't go wrong with those. But wisdom must be witnessed. Wisdom is what elders demonstrate to youngsters by way of themselves being examples.

experience is something I have 10 seconds after I really needed it.

I don't see alot of good decision making in today's youth, of course the same could be said for most of my friends who are also 50 years old.

A classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY

Good thread, Bob.

I was just thinking earlier tonight how important it is to think as independently as possible - try to shut out all the noise in one's life.

We all have an internal moral compass. But reading it accurately can be a challenge at times.

I read a quote this past year that said "You start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. Hopefully your experience bag gets filled up before your luck bag is empty"

I like that one.

Not me. As I get older I hear the footsteps behind me getting louder every day. The end of my life is catching up and it isn't just a philosophical concept to contemplate anymore, it's a reality that I have to face with increasing frequency. I don't have time to recover from a bad decision, so I think about my decisions more carefully, second guess myself more, and worry more about whether I've done the right thing.
I used to be a real gunslinger, made a lot of money and lost a lot of money without a second thought. I don't want to be on the losing cycle at this stage of my life, so I am far more careful and far more conflicted about risk/reward decisions.

well i'm glad it's not just me.

I often find myself in a position or come to the realization (to use a saw/cliché) - the more I know, the more I know I don't know.
This is a cool thread & will hopefully stimulate some introspection - Thanks to the OP

Cheers
JB

Nominated for old geezer thread of the month.

It appears as though this thread now has to countenance puerile & sophomoric humour.

hmm..i cant decide how to respond..

i'll be back later.