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HOW TO MAKE RIGHT CHOICES
IN LIFE?
By Abbas SV
decisions. Just to mention one such
study conducted by The Open
University, in which the subjects were
made to choose between products
and brands within a supermarket. The
breakthrough of this study was that,
after about 800 milliseconds, once the
subjects had made a choice, a region
called the right parietal cortex in the
brain became active. Deducing from
just this one study, we can safely
conclude that the decision-making
process we undergo, seems something
intangible and beyond our capacity to
control. But that is not entirely true,
Time and again, we find ourselves
the brain works on neural impulses
confronting decisions we are not
which are generated by our body’s
ready to make. In a fast-moving world
reaction to the situation and our
such as ours, time is of the essence,
emotions invested within. Hence, the
and therefore it is often said that the way we react has a direct impact on
most successful people are the ones our brain processing the decision. The
who are decisive. So how does one
most common scenario involves
inculcate this rather ambiguous trait?
hyperventilation, anxiety, or
Is there any inspirational TEDx talk
nervousness because we have been
you could watch or an online course led to believe that the consequences
to subscribe? Pardon my levity, but it of any bad decisions are unrepairable.
is of no surprise that the decision-
This morbid fear, in most cases, kills
making process is dynamic and more
creativity at its source and leads
than often it depends on the situation people to vegetate thinking that it is
you encounter. Fortunately, there is a always better to play safe. It was Mark
scientific explanation for all of this, Zuckerberg, Founder and Creator of
and where there is science, there is a
Facebook, who once said, “The biggest
solution!
risk is not taking any risks”.
Different studies have shown Although, it cannot be entrenched
different parts of the brain
that the risky choices are always the
consciously responsible for making
right ones. In fact, taking this
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