Skip to main content
UploadLanguage (EN)Support
BusinessMobileSocial MediaMarketingTechnologyArt & PhotosCareerDesignEducationPresentations & Public SpeakingGovernment & NonprofitHealthcareInternetLawLeadership & ManagementAutomotiveEngineeringSoftwareRecruiting & HRRetailSalesServicesScienceSmall Business & EntrepreneurshipFoodEnvironmentEconomy & FinanceData & AnalyticsInvestor RelationsSportsSpiritualNews & PoliticsTravelSelf ImprovementReal EstateEntertainment & HumorHealth & MedicineDevices & HardwareLifestyle
Roz Savage, profile picture
Uploaded byRoz Savage
PPTX, PDF548 views

The Art of Living Courageously - Week 6: Courageous Decision Making

The document discusses the concept of courageous decision-making, contrasting proactive and reactive decisions while emphasizing the influence of morality, social situations, and individual responsibility. It explores ethical dilemmas and frameworks for breaking them down, including ends-based, rule-based, and care-based thinking. Additionally, it highlights the importance of analyzing decision-making processes and the interplay of personal and environmental factors.

Self Improvement◦
Downloaded 11 times
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Courage in Theory & Practice Roz Savage
–Napoleon Bonaparte (via Sara) “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Week 6: Courageous Decision- Making ❖ Circumstance: ❖ Reactive decisions ❖ Proactive decisions ❖ Degree of Responsibility: ❖ Free will ❖ Conditioned response ❖ Fatalism ❖ Morality: ❖ Moral energy ❖ Moral apathy ❖ Social Situation: ❖ Individual ❖ Collaborative
Courageous Decision-Making Proactive Decisions Reactive Decisions Moral Energy Moral Apathy
Courageous Decision-Making ❖ Circumstance: ❖ Reactive decisions ❖ Proactive decisions ❖ Degree of Responsibility: ❖ Free will ❖ Conditioned response ❖ Fatalism ❖ Morality: ❖ Moral energy ❖ Moral apathy ❖ Social Situation: ❖ Individual ❖ Collaborative
Proactive vs Reactive Decisions
Reactive Decisions ❖ Ethical dilemmas (right vs right): ❖ Truth vs loyalty ❖ Individual vs community ❖ Short-term vs long-term ❖ Justice vs mercy Can we predict which will take precedence?
Ways to Break an Ethical Dilemma ❖ Ends-based thinking (utilitarianism, teleological) ❖ Greatest good to the greatest number (over the greatest period of time) ❖ Rule-based thinking (Kantian, deontological) ❖ If everybody acted as I am about to act, would that serve the greatest good? ❖ Care-based thinking ❖ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Kidder, Rushworth
Was Kidder’s analysis helpful?
Proactive Decisions Lifetime
Proactive Decisions Lifetime Which comes first - courage or situation?
Generating Options
We may not have free will, but we have free won’t
When Inspiration Strikes
Questions (from Week 4) ❖ Can I do this task? (self-efficacy) ❖ Do I want to do this task? (emotional) ❖ Why would I want to do this task? (cognitive - values, purpose) ❖ Is this choice likely to arise again? (identity) ❖ What is the meaning of undertaking this task? (worldview, significance, self-transcendence)
Courageous Decision-Making ❖ Circumstance: ❖ Reactive decisions ❖ Proactive decisions ❖ Degree of Responsibility: ❖ Free will ❖ Conditioned response ❖ Fatalism ❖ Morality: ❖ Moral energy ❖ Moral apathy ❖ Social Situation: ❖ Individual ❖ Collaborative
–Albert Camus “Life is the sum of all your choices.” Are your choices also the sum of all your life?
What factors do we take into account when making decisions?
Thinking Traps Anchorin g Status Quo (don’t rock the boat) Sunk Cost
Bounded Rationality Tractability (Herbert Simon)
Open Plane = Free Will (achievable?) Plateaux = Conditioned Response (Dan Siegel)
Field Theory B = f(LS) = f(P,E) B = Behaviour LS = Life Space (aka Psychological Field) P = Person (needs, beliefs, values, abilities) E = Environment (Kurt Lewin)
Courageous Decision-Making ❖ Circumstance: ❖ Reactive decisions ❖ Proactive decisions ❖ Degree of Responsibility: ❖ Free will ❖ Conditioned response ❖ Fatalism ❖ Morality: ❖ Moral energy ❖ Moral apathy ❖ Social Situation: ❖ Individual ❖ Collaborative
We All Have Boundaries ❖ Maximum and minimum ideals around: ❖ Food intake ❖ Exercise ❖ Sleep ❖ Working/studying hours ❖ Alcohol (etc) ❖ Should we also have a max and min around courage?
Exoskeleton = Boundaries = Laws? Backbone = Support = Inner Morality?
Exoskeleton vs Spine
Exoskeleton vs Spine
Analyse Your Decision- Making 1. what is the question I am trying to answer? (reframing) 2. assumptions 3. recent factors influencing mindset 4. decision-making centre (head/heart/gut, or intuition/intellect) 5. relevant values 6. similar decision likely to arise again (identity) 7. information available 8. time constraints 9. advisors/stakeholders consulted, why you chose them, what they said 10.risks and fears currently perceived 11.best case scenario as currently perceived 12.worst case scenario as currently perceived (including opportunity cost) 13.final decision 14.date to review your decision, how to evaluate success
Emergency Reactive Decision Making ❖ Strengths ❖ Weaknesses ❖ Opportunities ❖ Threats
–Peter Senge “People with high levels of personal mastery… cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.”
Would we ever want to delegate decision- making to AI? (ref driverless cars)
Courageous Decision-Making ❖ Circumstance: ❖ Reactive decisions ❖ Proactive decisions ❖ Degree of Responsibility: ❖ Free will ❖ Conditioned response ❖ Fatalism ❖ Morality: ❖ Moral energy ❖ Moral apathy ❖ Social Situation: ❖ Individual ❖ Collaborative
–Margaret Thatcher to George H. W. Bush, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 “Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.”
–Denholm Elliott “Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.”