The document discusses the concept of judgment, emphasizing the importance of good judgment in decision-making across various aspects of life, as well as the influence of personal values and biases on our decisions. It highlights how biases can develop from cultural and societal factors, and stresses the need for self-awareness and understanding in overcoming biases. The text encourages patience and personal growth while acknowledging the challenges posed by biases and the necessity of striving to inspire positive change.

1. Why you think you’re
right– even you’re
wrong ?
By: Julia Galef
MAKING A SOUND JUDGEMENT-
WYN-LOVE N. CAAMPUED
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2. What is Judgement?
 the ability to judge, make a decision,
or form an opinion objectively,
authoritatively, and wisely, especially
in matters affecting action; good
sense; discretion.
 the forming of an opinion, estimate,
notion, or conclusion, as from
circumstances presented to the mind.

3. Good Judgement
 The ability to use good judgment in
making decisions is one of the most
important skills you can possess. On a
daily basis, you may be barraged by
mundane and potentially life-changing
decisions. Making good decisions applies
to multiple aspects of your life,
including work, health, education,
family and personal relationships. Using
good judgment requires a healthy
mental state, a willingness to think
through issues and confidence in
yourself.

4.  Good judgement includes
considering the consequences of
one’s decisions, thinking before
acting and speaking and having
the tools to make good decisions
in a variety of situations.

5.  Good judgement includes
prioritising, meeting deadlines
and carefully planning, which
are tools that enable us to
effectively cope in difficult and
stressful situations. Making
decisions which fail to consider
the future can lead to high
levels of stress when we have to
rush deadlines and deal with
pressing problems.

6.  So many things in life rely on good
judgment. We often find ourselves
in situations where there are no
right or wrong answers. Our final
decision comes down to a matter
of judgment. There are lots of
examples of good judgement and
bad judgement in current affairs
right now.

7.  With the benefit of hindsight, it’s
easy to say that a leader did or
didn’t exercise good judgment.
However, in the case of political
leaders, we as voters need to be
able to predict in advance which
candidate has the greatest
potential to exercise good
judgment when leadership
decisions need to be made under
pressure.

8.  To be able to predict, we first need
to understand what influences our
leaders’ decisions. One of the key
drivers in making decisions and
exercising good judgment is an
individual’s own set of values, that
being a set of deeply held beliefs
about what is good, right and
appropriate. These values are deep-
seated and remain constant over
time, guiding us in our daily actions.

9.  Our values develop based on many
influences such as culture, parental
guidance, societal expectations
and individual differences. One of
the individual differences that
seem to impact what values we
adhere to is our personality
preference.

10.  Due to the vast amount of stimuli in
the environment, we cannot take in
and process all information equally.
Therefore our type preference can
influence the values we
develop. This happens when we
consciously or unconsciously pay
attention to judge or hold in higher
regard certain behaviors, attitudes
or characteristics exhibited by
others.

11. A WORD TO PONDER
 “Never judge others. You both
know good and well how
unexpected events can change
who a person is. Always keep that
in mind. You never know what
someone else is experiencing
within their own life.”

12. “Why we are wrong,
when we think we are
right”
Chaehan So
Bias is clearly bad-

13. What is Bias?
 Bias is a disproportionate weight in
favor of or against an idea or thing,
usually in a way that is closed-
minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases
can be innate or learned. People may
develop biases for or against an
individual, a group, or a belief.
References: Steinbock, Bonnie (1978). "Speciesism and the Idea of
Equality". Philosophy. 53 (204): 247–256.

14. What causes people to be biased?
 Starting at a young age, people will
discriminate between those who are
like them, their “ingroup,” and those
who are not like them, “their
outgroup.” On the plus side, they can
gain a sense of identity and safety.
However, taken to the extreme, this
categorization can foster an “us-
versus-them” mentality and lead to
harmful prejudice.

15.  We always hear that life can
be unfair but mapping
numbers to the unfairness
and bias of life is another
story.

16.  The first step is acknowledging our
imperfections and being aware of our
own biases, because, yes, each one of
us has their fair share of these. Biases
may have got to us through the
cultural environment where we grew
up, opinions and stereotypes we hear
around us, but also because of our
tendency to generalize our
experiences and jump to
conclusions. As human beings, we
hate gray areas and, for the sake of
simplifying our already-complicated
lives, end up adopting a cause-to-
effect kind of reasoning.

17.  As we go through our daily busy
lives, we are invited to stop and
catch ourselves in situations
where we are being biased
 Catching bias happening around
us and intervening in the right
time and manner is also key.

18.  For those who have been subject to
biases, and I’ve been one of you, do
not take it personally and do not
victimize yourself. Do not beat
yourself up and accuse yourself of
not being/doing enough when
actually you are doing everything in
your capacity to integrate.

19.  Integration does not imply burying your
old self and switching overnight into a
complete conformism mode. Despite
your best efforts, bias can still happen
to you and you will still experience
situations where you are not cool
enough to be around, your name will not
be put forward in many occasions
despite all your credentials, you will
receive over-criticism for minor things.

20.  Do not hate the person or label
him/her as bad because this is simply
untrue. Instead, let your life journey
and actions shatter all the stereotypes
that contributed to this person’s
biases. And, of course, don’t do it with
a revenge mentality (revenge is a
stupid self-harming idea).

21.  Do it, as Gandhi said, for the sake of being
the change you want to see in the world.
 From experience, I can tell you: nothing
beats the happiness of hearing someone who
has been biased against you acknowledging
that they misunderstood you, quickly judged
you or underestimated you at some point in
time.

22.  I learned that good judgment comes
from experience and that experience
grows out of mistakes.
 Pray with your intelligence. Bring
things to GOD that you have thought
out and think them out again with
HIM. For me that is the secret of good
judgment.

23.  We should learn to be patient with
ourselves. Recognizing our
strengths and our weaknesses, we
should strive to use good judgment
in all of our choices and decisions,
make good use of every
opportunity, and do our best in
every task we undertake.

24.  We should not be unduly
discouraged nor in despair at
any time when we are doing
the best we can. Rather, we
should be satisfied with our
progress even though it may
comes slowly at times.

25. Words to ponder…
 No matter what the world throws
at you, its important to strive to
be a better person and inspire
people to do the same along the
way.

26. Thank you and Keep safe
everyone…