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  • Posted By: savealife @ 11/26/2007 4:50:33 PM

    Good grief! Doesn't anyone care that the kids with asthma may die if they wait for the "good listeners". As a 911 person illogical (gut ) decisions kill people everyday. I would take the faster,even if uncaring doctor anyday if it meant saving my child's life. Medications and medical interventions do not care whether the doctor is a good listener they work for the bad listener just as well. Better yet call for an ambulance and save the kids life. kids

    • Posted By: doesitmatter? @ 11/26/2007 5:10:34 PM

      EXACTLY! Who cares how good a listener the doctor is when your childs short of breath and a Doctor is 20 minutes away? 60 minutes later the Doctor could listen very well to your child dying ... who are these " so called Majority people in this survey? I would like to know because if they live in my neighborhood I am moving.

      • Posted By: savealife @ 11/26/2007 7:11:06 PM

        Yes it matters! People with chest pain make decisions that it is just "gas" and delay getting help or calling 911 because their "gut" feeling is it is just "gas". Do you know how many people would be saved or at least have less damage to their heart if they just called immediately. So much for "gut" instinct.

    • Posted By: doesitmatter? @ 11/26/2007 5:12:38 PM

      Exactly!!!!

  • Posted By: savealife @ 11/26/2007 7:06:04 PM

    Good grief! Doesn't anyone care whether the kid with asthma lives or dies? As a 911 person these kind of gut decisions kill people ! I say take the doc who is closer even if he has no bedside manners! The medicine does not care, it will work even if the doctor does not give a hoot! Time saves lives! Better yet call an ambulance!. Parents do not always make good decisions in the heat of a crisis, that is why 911 was invented.

  • Posted By: Trust-in-yourself @ 11/26/2007 6:33:41 PM

    Always go with your gut feeling.... It's the universe answering the question you haven't even asked yet.
    And the universe is on your side....

  • Posted By: goodapples @ 11/26/2007 6:21:58 PM

    Tammy,
    at 38 you are quickly runnning out of time to get pg. Marry him-- he's a great guy and you want children. That's hard to find. "In love" does not last anyway.

    • Posted By: wbheath @ 11/26/2007 6:30:13 PM

      you are a fool and should not be listened to.

  • Posted By: Trust-in-yourself @ 11/26/2007 6:29:12 PM

    Tammy.... 38, 48 ,108 If you are truly in love, you will move heaven and earth to be with someone...
    38 is still young.... Don't settle.... 5 days after the wedding... Yes, Mr. Right will show up...
    Picture in your mind exactly what you want in a man... ht...wt...eye color...hair color... everything
    Think of only these traits.... Do it every AM and PM.... he will show up... Promise

  • Posted By: goodapples @ 11/26/2007 6:22:52 PM

    Tammy-- I say do it! He's a great guy, you are running out of time to get pg. "In love" comes and goes in any relationship.

  • Posted By: poleshift2012 @ 11/26/2007 6:17:35 PM

    Well, as the years go on, Its hard enough to live with someone that you're madly in love with. How hard do you think it would be to spend the rest of you life with someone your not.?

  • Posted By: wbheath @ 11/26/2007 6:17:22 PM

    Tammybr - Don't do it. If any part of you says no then the answer is no. The world is full of people who didn't listen to that little voice that said no and they are now divorced. Don't be another one of them. Have the courage to wait for someone better suited for you and you will be rewarded later. If you listen to your fears now and and settle, and you will be unhappy in the long run.

  • Posted By: naticatty @ 11/26/2007 6:17:06 PM

    Hi, that was interesting and I think the way Franklin did teach his nephew was kind of confusing. You should always listen to your heart, your guts. If you think you shouldn't stay somewhere, run! If you feel that person is bad, stay away from them.

    For the lady below me TAMMYB:

    Hey, if you don't love him, leave him. Let him find somebody whom will love him, and look for somebody whom will love you. You are 38, that's not old, why American women always think that they are old??? It doesn't make sense!!
    You can find somebody who you'll love! If you marry him, everything will sucK: life with him, vacation, sex (it will be only to have the child you want to) and also, that child will grown up around parents whom don't love 'll each other.... kids feel those things... it's not good. Later he'll be cheating on you, or you will end up divorcing... etc etc etc... You aren't in love and you only want him because you think you can't find somebody better and wants to have kids. Don't be selfish. Let him go and look for somebody else. Good luck!

  • Posted By: avidreader18 @ 11/26/2007 6:13:39 PM

    go with your gut feeling always, why?, because its based on years of evolution, sometimes it might be wrong but it will never work against your best interest, it can't, it does not have somebody 's else agenda, only yours,its your survival instinct talking to you

  • Posted By: vohung013 @ 11/26/2007 4:18:53 PM

    I agree completely: I have been telling others this for years but no one believes me. I have been to many training sessions and class room environments with large groups of people that were asked to make decisions on important topics; I usually gave an immediate recommendation on the course of action or decision and was ignored by the group. Several days later after everyone was exhausted with studying all the pros and cons the group would decided on a course of action that was the same as my initial recommendation. I am not that smart but have always had this ability and I am very pleased to hear confirmation of this ability. I am sure that this finding will have no affect on most people because they are simply incapable of making a decision without studying the question and all relevant information to excess. Good information here, but my experience tells me that it will not be used by many decision makers

    • Posted By: Tammybr @ 11/26/2007 6:04:26 PM

      How would you suggest using this method for decision making on personal life? For example, I am trying to decide if I should marry someone. A part of me says yes and a part of me says no. Overall he is a great guy. I am 38 years old and would like to have kids. Im just not as in love as i would like to be .

    • Posted By: TammyB @ 11/26/2007 6:03:02 PM

      How would you suggest using this method for decision making on personal life? For example, I am trying to decide if I should marry someone. A part of me says yes and a part of me says no. Overall he is a great guy. I am 38 years old and would like to have kids. Im just not as in love as i would like to be .

  • Posted By: mynutritionist @ 11/26/2007 5:43:02 PM

    A good recommendation I've used in life is this:
    - Treat big issues with a measure of lightness in order to persevere through the challenge without desperation, which is the enemy of good decision making.
    - Treat small issues intensely to respect the idiosyncracies of others and avoid a "death of a thousand cuts"

  • Posted By: Archangel63 @ 11/26/2007 5:37:58 PM

    Being an analytical thinker, I find this approach to decision-making rather informative and refreshing. However, whether or not satisficing can work in all areas of decision-making is questionable. There are times at which even I go with my intuitions on certain subjects, but I personally do not believe that intuition can be the new catch-all for such things. Most businesses, educational and religious institutions have to set priorities, and while it is partially based on emotionsand personal feelings, certain decisions will yield different customers/followers, profits and overall results. Analysis of any and all kinds will always fit into the equation, but I will give credit to the idea of adding intuition and quick thinking to the moral algebra process.

  • Posted By: miladjd @ 11/26/2007 5:35:57 PM

    Reading such opinions is very boring because everyday we hear different types of the ways of the life and finally we are confused to choose the way of our life!!!
    Milad J D from Iran country

  • Posted By: miladjd @ 11/26/2007 5:34:59 PM

    Reading such opinions is very boring because everyday we hear different types of the ways of the life and finally we are confused to choose the way of our life!!!
    Milad Jamshid Dezfuli from Iran country

  • Posted By: writingprincess @ 11/26/2007 5:29:19 PM

    Being naturally intuitive it amazes me how paralyzing people get when trying to make decisions. I believe that all decisions take consideration. The idea that "gut feeling," is something mysterious and is based on nothing more than a feeling is naive. Even a cop will tell you that his "gut feeling," about a suspect stems from years of experience dealing with suspects. As a former journalist I often used my "gut feeling," to ask a question that sent the interview down the path of true discovery instead of platitudes as most news articles go (this one included btw). But my decision to ask that question wasn't based on the ether rather on carefully considered data of the person I was interviewing, my own experience and the audience I was trying to reach. So I carefully considered all of that I just did it quickly and precisely because I'd done it hundreds of time before.
    I also don't believe you need reams of data to make good decisions in business or otherwise. You need RELEVANT data - which is increasingly difficult to find in this all-information-all the time age, but you don't necessarily need to know everything that's out there to make a good, sound decision.
    That said this article wasn't very enlightening but sparked really great discussion. I enjoyed reading others thoughts.

  • Posted By: bmarymee @ 11/26/2007 5:19:24 PM

    Great article, obviously a time honored approach to decision making.

  • Posted By: Zaid @ 11/26/2007 5:02:35 PM

    Funny but not realistic nor practical in real world business problems. Yes in reality there might be fast and accurate decisions, but makers of such decisions do not relay on less information!! On the contrary they relay on a solid knowledge background that make them a kind of human knowledge-based system (KBS) that can make use of available information in making good decisions. Anyway, I think that decision makers in my country (Iraq), mainly politician, will be so happy for hearing such study since they have a horrible shortage of information, and they relay on ad hoc decision making methodologies!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: LovelyOne @ 11/26/2007 5:17:07 PM

      why would this not be realistic in the business world? i'm 19 and about to own my own business and every decision i make it based on my gut... i think that people give the ability to analyze things too much credit because when we break it down, the most important things we do in life we do because of our feelings.. .so why not run everything with your feelings?
      my customers love me because i run my business with kindness and money comes second, thats why they always come back and so does their money.... i'm a jeweler and on the busiest day of the year black friday our store was closed, why, because it is more important to me and my partners to be with our families, and all our customers see that as a good choice becasue they relate to us on a personal basis

  • Posted By: LovelyOne @ 11/26/2007 5:11:57 PM

    I think this is a great way to figure things out. My practice in life is that issues are only as big as you make them. For example, I find myself on the opposite end of the country as all my friends living and working with my father who I can't stand, and dating a guy who had the nerve to call me a *itch. YET I do nothing about it. Why do I not move back to Ohio? Why do I not break up with this guy? Because I sit here and over analyze what these things mean. All my other decisions in life have been "rash" as people like to say. I hear the facts and I play the cards i was dealt. But this time I've been folding instead of playing my hand, well lets just say it isn't making my life easier to think about things, I follow my heart and my gut and that's how I've lived up until now and starting with the new year (because I have good reasons to wait until then) I'll be living that way once again.
    A good friend of mine told me that the only thing i need to listen to is my heart. Don't think about every fact, think about what you feel is right. As a mother, i'd feel the right thing to do would be to get my child the quickest attention possible, me liking the doctors methods are irrelevant.
    Follow your heart and you're life will work out. Analyze everything, and you'll work yourself to death.

  • Posted By: LovelyOne @ 11/26/2007 5:10:35 PM

    I think this is a great way to figure things out. My practice in life is that issues are only as big as you make them. For example, I find myself on the opposite end of the country as all my friends living and working with my father who I can't stand, and dating a guy who had the nerve to call me a *itch. YET I do nothing about it. Why do I not move back to Ohio? Why do I not break up with this guy? Because I sit here and over analyze what these things mean. All my other decisions in life have been "rash" as people like to say. I hear the facts and I play the cards i was dealt. But this time I've been folding instead of playing my hand, well lets just say it isn't making my life easier to think about things, I follow my heart and my gut and that's how I've lived up until now and starting with the new year (because I have good reasons to wait until then) I'll be living that way once again.
    A good friend of mine told me that the only thing i need to listen to is my heart. Don't think about every fact, think about what you feel is right. As a mother, i'd feel the right thing to do would be to get my child the quickest attention possible, me liking the doctors methods are irrelevant.
    Follow your heart and you're life will work out. Analyze everything, and you'll work yourself to death.

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