PJD101 First Class
- 1. 0 PJD 101 Summary of the first class of PJD 101 2017/1/28 Yoshiaki Fujita
- 2. 1 Decision making Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -- Malcom Gladwell, Blink. ・Decision making starts from instinctive thought. ・Instinctive thinking and deliberate thinking are two different systems in the brain. ・Instinctive thinking might be emotional while deliberate thinking might be analytical and logical. ・What’s the decision based on just instinctive or on just deliberate thinking? To think this question is required in order to understand Malcom’s quote.
- 3. 2 Decision Making Process Perception Thinking Judgement Decision Organize, interpret a lot of information, enabling us to recognize meanings of objects and events. Influenced by ・emotion ・experience/knowledge ・memory ・possible outcomes and involves statistics and probability people isn’t good at. The process is simple, however it is difficult due to the complexity of the brain structure and functions, such as perception, thinking and judgement. What is thinking?
- 4. 3 Two Thinking Systems Decision Deliberate ThinkingPerception Judgement Instinctive Thinking emotion emotion experience knowledge expectation memory memory data FAST SLOW plan others
- 5. 4 What I’ve learned ・Decision making starts from specific perception, for example, looking at an attractive item then be eager to buy it. This “be eager to buy” might be instinctive thought. ・However, most of us consider other conditions, such as price, whether it is suitable or not, possession of similar items, etc. these consideration might be deliberate thought. ・To decide to buy or not to buy, it seems to be good practice to take a lot of deliberate thought. However, if someone takes too much deliberate thought, she might forget instinctive thought. ・Instinctive thought is essentially vital ability for human being, so forgetting it may bring bad decision. Therefore taking balance between instinctive and deliberate thinking is important and we should learn how well to keep this balance when we make decisions.
- 6. 5 Further learning points ・The difference between the brain and computer system (AI). Dual Process of the brain (Bottom UP and Top Down) ・The safety mechanism of the brain to control movements of body when dreaming. ・When and how we could assess if the specific decision is good one.