It is hard for others when you want to force your perspectives on them. Just the way it took you time to form your perspectives, opinions and attitudes, the same way it took those people time to form theirs. Never think you have a superior idea, way of life, until you try to understand the other person's perspectives. The choice you want people to accept is an ideology you have either tested or not and those people also have 'tested and tried' methods.
Making choices are premised on two virtues;
One is Instinct or gut feeling. This often guide us from past experience; we use intution to make decision like avoiding accidents. Most people learn to rely on this and people who make big and crucial decisions will tell you that gut feelings do fail big time when critical thinking is needed. This gut feeling is what psychologist call system one (1) thinking.
The second level of thinking is what pyschologist call system two (2) thinking. It requires higher level of thinking: critical analysis of available information and facts. It is the level top managers are expected to operate but unfortunately according to Harvard Business Review, over 66% of decisions made by fortune 500 executives were wrong. Where does the problem lie. The problems lie with the fact that we are often faced with many decisions in life, that critical thinking becomes impossible for all situations. We rely often on gut feelings for most decisions and when we try as much as possible to be critical we often focus on the negatives which often dawn the positives. Time is money, gut is the cheapest asset.
Choices are hard to make and most times our emotions and feelings play big roles in our choices, they even play a big part in the way we interpret God and how we feel about Him and that is why I would like you to try the option 3, or system three thinking.
To be continued
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