Decision Making

Do you wish to equip your kid with spontaneous decision making quality? Let’s start our conversation with one question - “Is chaos good? Can it help? Can a chaotic class lead to better learning outcomes ?”

How? Won’t that lead to even a worse class? Should education be structured? What if it is controlled chaos? Can your kid handle the chaos? Can better learning outcomes be achieved if your kid enjoys pressure and handle it with happiness? DeepThought puts kids in chaos and asks them to reflect and learn from it.

Do you wish to give your kid the best gift ever? Is this the most important human faculty? Isn’t this what leaders do all day? Why do some people stagnate in the middle-level management, never making it to the next level? What do they miss? Are that real-life problem solving and decision making qualities they lack? How can one develop them?

Firstly, Real-world decision making is always based on partial information. The world can always present you with surprises - the pandemic was a huge surprise. So how do you decide when you know the environment is uncertain? What kind of heuristics do you use? Did you introduce your child to heuristics? Are you stuck in teaching your child methods, or are you introducing her/him to heuristics??

Secondly, real-world decision making needs accountability. You need to own up to your decisions - irrespective of the outcome. Can your child bite the bullet when the decision goes wrong? Is your child okay with failing or does your child want success every time? Wanting success every time is a sure shot recipe for failure. Real-world strategies always come with a probability of success, not a certainty.?

Thirdly, does your child feel safe enough to take decisions? If her/his bosses don't give them the freedom, can she/he make a commitment and get freehand. Bosses usually give a free hand to people who deliver results. How do you find a work environment where people are willing to back up a few of your failures for a few big successes??

Clearly, this is a nuanced subject, isn't it? So do we have time for decision making? DeepThought is teaching children decision making through real-world simulations - putting kids into situations and making them make decisions, basis partial information. This helps them learn how to face such situations when they come in so partial information-based decision making doesn't come in as a surprise.