When we are really young our parents or guardians make the majority of our decisions. As we start to become more independent we begin to make more decisions by ourselves, then by the time we are 18 or off on our own, every decision become your own and you control your life. Or that is what we are taught believe, and that is what we think.
You are the person you are today because of your beliefs, values and how you were raised. What we don't realize, is that all of these factors and more affect decisions we make everyday in our life. "In today's society the media and outside forces play a part in everything". "Many of our decisions are not really our own, they are often influenced by outside forces". This is a really hard concept for many people to accept because "we don't like the idea of some illusion affecting our decisions".
However, if you think of it we see practically every decision we make, but are we actually "seeing" the options at hand. During the ted-talk the speaker showed us two images of tables. One appeared way longer than the other, but when he measured them, they were the exact some. Sometimes our minds is confused into accepting the reality of the situation because even we he took the lines of measurement away, most of us chose the original image of the longer looking table, even though we know they are the same.
I personally believe that the information we know plays the most effective trick on our decisions. Let's say that you have two slices of pizza in front of you. They are the exact same, however you are told that one was made only using rotten ingredients. You are obviously going to choice the other one, even though they look the exact same, its all about the perception we are given. If you were not told that information, you could have easily pick the one made with bad ingredients.
"When it comes to making everyday decisions we don't know our limits, we try to work through everything in front of us, we take the hard way and make it way more complicated that it actually needs to be". This is an interesting concept because in the "real world we know our limits. We work around things like science", because we know we can’t do everything. Yet somehow our mentality switches.
So next time you go to make a decision look at everything and think about whether this is your own decision or is something making you chose this.
You are the person you are today because of your beliefs, values and how you were raised. What we don't realize, is that all of these factors and more affect decisions we make everyday in our life. "In today's society the media and outside forces play a part in everything". "Many of our decisions are not really our own, they are often influenced by outside forces". This is a really hard concept for many people to accept because "we don't like the idea of some illusion affecting our decisions".
However, if you think of it we see practically every decision we make, but are we actually "seeing" the options at hand. During the ted-talk the speaker showed us two images of tables. One appeared way longer than the other, but when he measured them, they were the exact some. Sometimes our minds is confused into accepting the reality of the situation because even we he took the lines of measurement away, most of us chose the original image of the longer looking table, even though we know they are the same.
I personally believe that the information we know plays the most effective trick on our decisions. Let's say that you have two slices of pizza in front of you. They are the exact same, however you are told that one was made only using rotten ingredients. You are obviously going to choice the other one, even though they look the exact same, its all about the perception we are given. If you were not told that information, you could have easily pick the one made with bad ingredients.
"When it comes to making everyday decisions we don't know our limits, we try to work through everything in front of us, we take the hard way and make it way more complicated that it actually needs to be". This is an interesting concept because in the "real world we know our limits. We work around things like science", because we know we can’t do everything. Yet somehow our mentality switches.
So next time you go to make a decision look at everything and think about whether this is your own decision or is something making you chose this.