Clarification

Hello again, Just thought the last post needed a bit of good'ol clarification, namely I need to define what I mean by Inteligent & Stupid (in the contex of the last post).

Every day we make decisions, many of those decisions are mundane, minor ones that we can get away with doing pretty much instinctively, but not all our decisions are that easy. There are many decisions that we make every day that ARE important, or at least more important than ones we can get away without thinking about. Everything from choosing to argue with a co-worker, to deciding wether or not to run a red light, to who you vote for. At the most basic level there are two ways of handling these decisions:

1. You can consider the various options, weighing up the pros & cons, thinking about the ramifications of each course of action, and then choosing the best option (as is deemed but the situation & personal priorities) available.

2. Alternatively you can ignore most of the possibilities, just grab the most obvious & easiest option (interestingly this is usually the option which has the least personal responsibility attached to it) and run with it.

‘1’ is the most intelligent way to handle decision making, while ‘2’ is the least intelligent (i.e. stupid) way. Sure, we are none of us perfect, & considering every option in any given situation is impossible, added to this is the limitation of time, but the closer each decision is to ‘1’ the more intelligent you are being when you make it.