What Role Do We Play In How We Make Decisions Essay

How we see ourselves plays an important role in how we make decisions. In my late teenage years living in Sydney, I found life has difficult moments. Life was not as easy as I had hope. The main challenge I could remember was finding who I am. Finding who you are is a process and I believe I discovered that the hard way. Ultimately my decision was to relocate to Gold Coast. Relocating gave me the illusion I needed to redefine who I am. This change was a developing process for me, it is the primary reason I am where I am. I was able to change the direction of my career, spirituality and social networks. Little did I know that this development stage is happening to me and a series of systematic changes and continuities is beginning to occur

When I adapt the new environment, I took action, lots of actions because if I don’t, nothing will happen. So, I learn to create and spot new opportunities for me. I realize that only me can make things happen and I will make them happen. I learn to trust my gut feeling, an instinct that helped me in every decision in making it better, more fulfilling, and more heart-centered. I know life won’t always be perfect, but with my gut instinct, I felt like I’m a whole lot stronger and smarter than I think. This experience according to Piaget , once acquired, is the process of assimilation and with the new schema will continue until the next time we want to make adjustment to it (Huitt & Hummel, 2003).

Piaget has only four stages in his theory and no real theory after the onset of adolescence. It was believed that not everybody reach formal operational thought considering if the individuals comes from different parts of the world, different culture, different environment, the findings will be more complex. While Vygotsky’s theory has continuity in the fundamental source of cognition, which is social