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Read your essay and write an analysis and reflection paper that comments on the following aspects of your work.
1. What was the most difficult aspect of the assignment for you and why - summarizing the article? Crafting a response? Developing your evidence? Organizing your paper? Editing and proofreading your paper?
2. What was the easiest aspect of the assignment for you and why?
3. What part of the paper do you think you executed the most effectively - its introduction? Conclusion? The summary? The response?
4. What part do you think you executed the least effectively?
5. What aspects of writing in general would you like to improve on in your next essay and why?
Keep in mind that this exercise is an essay, which means it should have an introduction, a thesis statement, a body, and a conclusion.
Big Decisions
On daily occasions human beings are subjected, whether voluntary or involuntary; to situations forcing them make big decisions without any clue to their outcome. Apparently, these decisions lead some of individuals be faced by dilemmas regarding whether to execute their decisions since they do not what they need, want or desire. In this paper, attention shall be focused on the instances where people are faced with big decisions and why it is difficult to plan and make rational decisions.
Summary
In his article, "The Big Decisions," David Brooks asserts that transformative decisions may be likened with the choice of becoming a vampire where with a magical bite individual transforms to a new superhuman life. However, as notified that such a new life may be incredible, though irreversible, it may be nasty and difficulty to make the choice and acquire a new self without having a clear consent on how it feels, thereafter.
Transformative decisions are life-altering aspects that changes human cognitive thinking permanently as they acquire new status, life and a different version of self. Therefore, it becomes hard to plan and make rational decisions as no one is sure to the certainty of the underlying transformative decision being made.
Getting a child, becoming a military officer, marrying, switching religions, immigrating and change of careers are part of the transformative decisions that to a bigger extent face human beings in their living.
In my opinion, Brooke has managed to illustrate how we are faced by transformative decisions to make in various aspects of our lives. One way of ensuring that you make the right decision in the various circumstances is by asking the right questions.
Brooks argues that a pure version of such experience deciding on whether to have a child, or not. Empirically, individuals who have children have revealed to suffer a loss in their well-being. They appear more exhausted and tend to drive a lower satisfied life than their childless counterparts. However, once a parent the chances of presuming the former pre-parental self are minimal and infeasible.
Similarly, other transformative decisions follow this lineage of irreversibility of the self.
In conclusion, Brooks argues that asking the right questions is the only aspect that drives the right decision.
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