Have you ever searched in google - 'How to make a perfect decision'? Or 'How to improve decision making process'. You will get lot of articles. Even in you tube videos or in other training websites, you will get training for decision making process. I will not focus on the step-by-step process for decision making, I will only focus on the key roadblock in the perfect decision-making ability.
But first, let's read the story below.
❤️❤️ A Shaggy Duck Story ❤️❤️
When I lived in an organic farming community, one morning I sat on the porch of the bunkhouse, watching members walk across a grassy area to the dining hall. Beside the path, Pete the duck sat and quacked at people as they walked by. A professional singer was the first to pass by Pete that morning. Upon hearing him, she stopped and told him, “How nice of you to sing me a morning song!” The next woman along the path was rather overweight. When she heard Pete quack in her direction, she scolded him, “You’re always quacking for more food, Pete. It’s time you stuck to your diet!” The final person to pass was a very intellectual architect. Hearing Pete’s voice, he retorted, “Questions, Pete—always questions! How about some answers for a change?” Hmm . . . Each person saw Pete through the lens of his or her own self-perception. They projected their worldview onto the duck and attributed their beliefs about themselves to him. It was their own selves they were talking to. We are all speaking only to our own self. (Taken from A Course in Miracles).
The above story is an example of real time situations what we face daily in our professional or personal life. We judge our colleagues, teammates, family members, friends, relatives and others. Most of us believe that we have extensive good capabilities to judge others in short time. When we quickly judge others, our thoughts are actually coming from what is already present in our memory. Those judgements are memories, replaying in our conscious mind. We use the same to judge anyone. But our judgements are not always right and this will lead to wrong decisions. Let us know judge anyone quickly based on few facts.
The opposite to mind projection is mind extension. In corporate world we use phrases like 'putting ourselves in customer shoes' or 'wearing customer hat to think like them' or 'customer empathy'. Why we use them? In simple terms, we extend ourselves into the other personalities, feel like them, understand the situations surrounding them. We don't feel the other personality as a separate entity, rather than we extend ourselves into them. When we become one, then the truth arises. Then we don't judge blindly, rather than take a confident decision.
👉 So, whenever you make any decision, don't let your judgmental mind come between you and your decision. Otherwise, you will be in the illusion of perfect decision maker.
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