The Journey Within: Your Personal Exploration of Decision-Making and Its Outcomes

Reflection time

This post is an atypical one because I will invite you to take time for yourself to reflect.

I would recommend taking between 20 to 30 minutes for you to reflect upon how you make decisions and learn from your reflection.

Why do this? Because “you do not learn from experiences, you learn from reflecting on them” - quoting Thiagi ( one of the greatest teachers I know so far in the world of Training experts).

If you want to read first about the neuroscience of decision-making, check out facts and examples, here is the related article.

What shall I reflect on?

🎲 Reflect on a big decision you had to take in the past (e.g. choose your career path, chose your life partner, buy a house/ a car, change jobs).

• What was your gut feeling?

• Did you listen to your intuition?

• Was it a good or a bad decision?

🎲 Reflect on what you consider to be the worst decision you took in the past and go through the same process:

• What was your gut feeling?

• Did you listen to your intuition?

• What would have happened if you would have listened to your gut feeling?

• What would have happened if you would have listened to both gut feeling and rational thinking?

🎲 What is your personal learning for future decisions?

Take time to write down your answers.

If you wish to share your learnings, we are happy to hear them in the comments and learn from each other as well.

Resources:

• NeuroMindfuness Institute