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Over-Analysts and Daredevils

Yes, I am talking about a cliche topic that everyone knows, decisions - or making decisions to be precise. I think I am speaking on behalf of those who are in the transition state of becoming adolescents (read: graduating high school) when I say that making decisions or being able to shortlist the possible choices (at least) is one of the hardest things that we have to encounter. Decisions, according to Dictionary.com is the act or process of deciding;  determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment. Some people say that in order to make the right decision we need to consider the pros and cons of each possible outcomes so that we could analyze objectively. These considerations arise from our knowledge, experience, discoveries, etc. I call these people over-analysts Other people agree that being overcritical will not help us to come to a decision; it’s better to just ‘do’ than to think again and again about the outcomes of a choice and I call these people daredevils.

To be honest, I think myself as an over-analyst. I tend to think too much about the pros and cons of a decision that a choice becomes blurry to me. Thorough analysis of a choice requires much time, energy and spiritual consultation and motivation. This is usually the case when we want to make a really, really big choice that determines the course of our lives (hyperbole intended), for example choosing a college, choosing between siding with one side or another, and ending a very stable but dead relationship. In the end though, this pays off (at least from my previous experiences and encounters). This process of choosing lets us to think objectively, which I think is one of the most important things in life. However, this process I considered to be flawed when it comes to dealing with fast decisions which requires not exactly the brain to work but the heart and our instincts.

In the other hand, I consider ‘don’t think (too much), just do’ people as brave individuals (hence the term daredevil). They are usually people who love experiencing new things, and this works really well when dealing with fast decisions. What I admire the most about them is that even though their decisions are not (much) the work of the brain, most of the time they are people who get good opportunities. This is due to the fact that they are able to say decide on almost anything in an instant, or say yes to every opportunity that arose. However, this can also be seen as a drawback. Often, at least for me, attempting to decide a choice in an instant leads to bad decisions.

So which one are you? an over-analyst or a daredevil?

A Learning Methodology

Hi there (whoever is following my Tumblr account, which I assume only a few), writing is not exactly my strong suit since I have problems in communicating my thoughts and dealing with structures and grammar but this is actually an experiment, a learning methodology which I intend to follow in order to be able to write properly and get more followers since writing a blog these days is a hit (lol, jk it’s in preparation for my A-Level Exam). I am doing this on purpose such that during the exam which will be held on May and June this year (God save me) I will be able to write a cohesive and a brilliantly put out essay (that is the hope).

Writing is never my hobby, I am your 21st-century-social-networking-all-the-time kid who checks on his Facebook and Twitter regularly, thinks that it’s the end of the world if the WiFi connection in my room is off and slouches off every weekend to watch any movie being played on HBO. However, I found something rather interesting when I read Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything just now (yes, I wrote this just after reading the first 150 pages of the book) about Albert Einstein, which all of you (unless you’re living under a rock) are all familiar with. One particular story that I want to tell you about is about his upbringing and breakthrough in the history of theoretical physics.

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, the one that came up with the most famous equation of all time, at least in my lifetime: E=mc^2. He was (and is still) recognized as the most brilliant man in the world, but correct me if I’m wrong. His success began from his breakthrough paper that he wrote on photoelectric effect where he explained the nature of light, and won his first Nobel Prize. What amazed me was that, Albert Einstein was only a national patent office worker in Germany when he wrote this and that he did not have a proper tertiary education and quoted ‘was bright but not brilliant’ and that he himself said that he ‘seldom had ideas’.

This, to me, proves that ‘nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come’. The human brain is so beautifully complicated that it can generate an idea that is so irrational and illogical to some people (like Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity which according to one scientist can only be understood by 3 people in this world) but is simply brilliant. So this is actually my way of expressing ideas (also to practice my writing skills) hoping someday that I can think of an idea that is substantial and has a great importance and effect.