5-10 Most Important Decisions
Two Tales Assignment
1.) Before watching the talk, make a list of the 5-10 most important decisions that you will make in your life.
a. College choice
b. Whom you will marry
c. The career you choose to be in life
d. Deciding to have children
e. Whether to make an investment
f. Deciding where to live
2.) Choose two or three decisions and list the criteria that you will use to make these decisions.
a. College choice
i. “Do I have good grades?” ii. “Do I have a good ACT/SAT score?” iii. “Do I Have activities that make me “unique”?”
b. The Career choice in life
i. “Is this job worth my time?” ii. “Am I receiving enough from this job to live a comfortable life?” iii. “Am I satisfied and happy with this job?”
c. Deciding where to live
i. “Do I feel …show more content…
“Is it Worth it?”
3.) Do you believe that you will logically and rationally use your criteria to make those decisions? Why or why not?
I believe that the criteria will mostly be followed at a rational and logical paste. However, in terms of doing this in a prolonged manner, this cannot be possible for as an individual. There will be times in which I will not be following these criteria and instead going to the most reasonable or stupidest way to resolve it, even if it doesn’t follow the criteria.
4. In the opening line of the speech, Ariely makes a joke saying, "I'll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course - other people's." Describe the cognitive bias he is pointing out from the very beginning of this talk.
The cognitive bias that he is pointing out from the beginning is that it’s impossible that no one has any irrational behavior. He makes a statement about irrational behavior in which the audience “does not have” according to Ariely, but this is not true making it a cognitive bias.
5. Ariely's first example is the image of the two tables. What irrational thinking is demonstrated by this …show more content…
These factors are such as: words, choices given, consequences, etc. These factors play a massive role in what choices we make and how we interpret them.
10. Ariely says, "But when it comes to us, we have such a feeling that we're in the driver's seat, such a feeling that we're in control and we are making the decision, that it's very hard to even accept the idea that we actually have an illusion of making a decision, rather than an actual decision." Paraphrase and explain this statement in your own words.
What this statement means is that: “We think we may have control over the decision, but ultimately we do not. It’s difficult to think that we are making an “invisible” decision, which we are making compared to the real decision.
11. Ariel goes on to say that some people might explain a way the organ donor phenomena by saying that it is something that people don't care about. But, he says, "it's so complex that we don't know what to do. And because we have no idea what to do, we just pick whatever it was that was chosen for us. What is he saying about how we make the most difficult and complex decisions in our
1.) Before watching the talk, make a list of the 5-10 most important decisions that you will make in your life.
a. College choice
b. Whom you will marry
c. The career you choose to be in life
d. Deciding to have children
e. Whether to make an investment
f. Deciding where to live
2.) Choose two or three decisions and list the criteria that you will use to make these decisions.
a. College choice
i. “Do I have good grades?” ii. “Do I have a good ACT/SAT score?” iii. “Do I Have activities that make me “unique”?”
b. The Career choice in life
i. “Is this job worth my time?” ii. “Am I receiving enough from this job to live a comfortable life?” iii. “Am I satisfied and happy with this job?”
c. Deciding where to live
i. “Do I feel …show more content…
“Is it Worth it?”
3.) Do you believe that you will logically and rationally use your criteria to make those decisions? Why or why not?
I believe that the criteria will mostly be followed at a rational and logical paste. However, in terms of doing this in a prolonged manner, this cannot be possible for as an individual. There will be times in which I will not be following these criteria and instead going to the most reasonable or stupidest way to resolve it, even if it doesn’t follow the criteria.
4. In the opening line of the speech, Ariely makes a joke saying, "I'll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course - other people's." Describe the cognitive bias he is pointing out from the very beginning of this talk.
The cognitive bias that he is pointing out from the beginning is that it’s impossible that no one has any irrational behavior. He makes a statement about irrational behavior in which the audience “does not have” according to Ariely, but this is not true making it a cognitive bias.
5. Ariely's first example is the image of the two tables. What irrational thinking is demonstrated by this …show more content…
These factors are such as: words, choices given, consequences, etc. These factors play a massive role in what choices we make and how we interpret them.
10. Ariely says, "But when it comes to us, we have such a feeling that we're in the driver's seat, such a feeling that we're in control and we are making the decision, that it's very hard to even accept the idea that we actually have an illusion of making a decision, rather than an actual decision." Paraphrase and explain this statement in your own words.
What this statement means is that: “We think we may have control over the decision, but ultimately we do not. It’s difficult to think that we are making an “invisible” decision, which we are making compared to the real decision.
11. Ariel goes on to say that some people might explain a way the organ donor phenomena by saying that it is something that people don't care about. But, he says, "it's so complex that we don't know what to do. And because we have no idea what to do, we just pick whatever it was that was chosen for us. What is he saying about how we make the most difficult and complex decisions in our