A decision involving choices leading to fundamentally different results means all decisions based on that decision will be fundamentally affected. Why? Because subsequent decisions are resting upon and relying upon an underlying decision. All other decisions built upon that foundation will be made better (more secure) or worse (less stable) based upon the soundness of that underlying decision.
What Makes Choices Different?
1. Insufficient information.2. Different results (outcomes, effects, consequences).
3. Insufficient understanding of 1 and 2 above. The reason there is a need to make a decision involving choices is one or more of the three reasons above is true. If all three were not true, there would be no need to make a decision. There would already be sufficient information and understanding at the first moment when faced with choices. You would immediately recognize which one was best and would simply accept the evident choice and not have to figure anything out. To state this another way, if sufficient information and understanding existed already, the difference would be so clear, the best choice would step forward and basically choose you. How can this be?
Decision-Making
The reason for a decision-making thought process is to help the choices reveal their fundamental differences and make it easier for you to recognize which one fundamentally fits you. Choices are not as much about making a decision as they are about taking the choices through the decision-making thought process. A decision-making thought process is one that allows discovery of information, results and understanding so the choices reveal their fundamental differences. A proper decision-making thought process involving choices never ends up in a toss-up, a close judgment call or in not being sure. This is impossible. Why? You can't start out with things fundamentally different and end up concluding the decision involving them is not fundamentally different. If you do, there's something wrong with the decision-making thought process itself or something went wrong during the process. Go back and start over. It is the only way. Especially when results are not what they should be. A legal system is a decision-making thought process and you see what happens when any part of the process, the information or the understanding goes wrong. Fortunately, each person can put their decisions on the witness stand as many times as necessary and retry choices based on new information and understanding, until nothing but truth remains. There is no statute of limitations.More Definitions
Choices and alternatives mean the same thing. Choices and options are not the same thing. Options mean one or the other can be decided upon without changing the results fundamentally. An option means either one is okay. Hamburger compared to apple is a choice. Fruit compared to vegetable is an option.Conclusion
Decisions involving choices require more of a thought process than decisions involving options. To know whether a decision involves a choice or an option, look at the potential results. If the results are fundamentally different, choices are involved and time must be taken to go through the thought process to reach a decision. If a decision has already been made, you can change your mind in the present and realign the past with the future.All Decisions Are Based On One Decision
