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The Decision-Making Lab

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Every day we have to make choices; some minuscule and some grand. The Decision-Making lab was the most interesting to me because I got to play an advance version of the “Would You Rather?” game. This lab did not merely give me to choices for me to make a decision. The benefits, risks, and wording played huge roles in which one I chose. While doing this lab, I was able to not only make decisions for the purposes of the lab, I was able to reflect on the way I approach daily decisions. This lab was extremely thought-provoking and gave me a concrete task to understand how and why we make the decisions we make throughout our lives. When I was reading the description of the lab, I was not quite sure I understood the directions. I really did not …show more content…

For example, I have to make a decision to continue to participate in an organization on campus or basically quit the club. There are few benefits and there are more disadvantages that are monetary, energy-consuming, and time-consuming. I am caught between sticking out something I made a commitment to and not wasting my resources to stick out this commitment. An article written in 2011 for “Skills You Need,” states “If you’re not emotionally committed to the decision you’ve made, you won’t implement it well or effectively” (p. 1). After performing this lab, this was really imbedded with me because I like to choose the most logical option with clear and concise procedures and solutions, but if not for my emotional stake in the decision and actions I take then I would not be able to effectively act out the solution or believe it is the best choice. In relation to my dilemma, the best option that I would be emotionally founded in is to quit, but I also value commitment highly. This situation really tied together the Decision –Making lab because I was able to realize a real problem, formulize possible solutions, and then think about all of the aspects of each solution in order to choose one. To make decisions is actually hard to do and I could apply this to so many smaller or larger problems that people encounter

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