Sedaris 'Essay's In The Waiting Room'

THE DECISIONS WE MAKE.

Individuals have different behaviors that create ideas, hobbies, dreams, and ambitions that people aspire to fulfill in their lives. Decisions that we make as individuals are determined by various factors we encounter as we live. Those factors are sometimes situational, or long term and have great impacts in our lives. The ability to decide on how to control ourselves, and our lives differ from an individual to another. This essay is addressing the ways in which we make decisions. Ronit kark and Dina Van Dijk are authors of the work “The role of the self regulatory focus in leadership processes.” They explain two major theories, the Promotion regulatory focus theory and the Prevention regulatory focus theory.
In contrast, individuals who operate primarily within the prevention focus theory are those who live their lives as expected to, by rules or procedures set by others, even when they do not want to do so. They do not deviate from the set of rules, or procedures to avoid failures, or punishments. David Sedaris is an American humor writer of the work “In the waiting room” who sets an example of how we choose to operate within Kark and Van Dijk regulatory focus theories, through his work he explains his life experiences, when he first went to Paris and could not speak French, takes a French school but then gives up. David Sedaris experienced difficulties in adopting a new language and decided to take the easy way out. From the theories, learning French was a duty and an obligation for Sedaris, as he needed to communicate, so he at first operated within the prevention focus theory, but when he gave up on French school and decided to take the easy way out, he automatically switched to operate within the promotion focus theory, where he showed more willingness to take a risk and picked one French word to
In this case people need to be sure of their wants or needs in their lives, before making decisions. For those who seek changes and cannot stop at anything unless it is what they want, can definitely not operate under prevention focus theory, since prevention limits one’s abilities to achieve a certain expectation, and puts a pattern lifestyle for an individual to follow while promotion focus gives room for individuals to learn and think of ways to reach their goals hence creativity, and skills emerge within them. From Sedaris work, he mainly relied on the promotion focus theory to help him decide when he chose one French word to serve his communication needs, even when his choice put him in unexpected