Wise Judgment Scenario Choose one of the following scenarios and discuss how each of the five components of wise judgments can be applied to the scenario you have chosen. Then, make a decision based on the five components. Explain the rationale behind your decision. 1. A teenage girl is “in love” with her 17-year-old boyfriend. He is encouraging her to have sex with him saying that he will make sure they only have “protected” sex. 2. A man has had a difficult time finding a job that pays
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Language and Thought (1953) Susanne K. Langer Susanne K. Langer was born in New York City in 1895 and attended Radcliffe College. There she studied philosophy, an interest she maintained until her death in 1985. She stayed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a tutor at Harvard University from 1927 to 1942. Langer then taught at the University of Delaware, Columbia University, and Connecticut College, where she remained from 1954 until the end of her distinguished teaching career. Her books include
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# Boundaries - Your First Line of Defense Do you want to say NO but you don’t feel able to, or if you do, you feel guilty. Setting personal Boundaries can help you to overcome blocks like this. ---- Imagine for a moment that you are looking through a microscope and you are seeing some tiny cells moving around in a liquid. You can distinguish one cell from another because each one has a very well defined limit: a membrane (the outer skin of the cell). > **For a cell, its membrane is its Boundary
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Finally I could have answers to my questions about what I am eating, what are all these ingredients that I can’t pronounce, where do they come from and are they, or are they not good for me. It is the type of book that I had never read before, but thought would be good for me, mainly because I am trying to improve the health of myself as well as my young family. The most life altering information that I learned from the book came within the first couple chapters. He traced a McDonalds meal back
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end of the book I decided to study a very tough course that I never studied before. I was really interested in this course and I want to challenge myself. Many friends laughed at me about my impulsion. But I never regret this decision. Instead, I thought it was the best decision of my life because I learned a lot from that tough process. People in the world usually like to criticize and judge others. By learning from Mr Fogg, I realized that I
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the house. First I thought they were still asleep, but when I went to the kitchen I saw that my breakfast was on the table, and also a brief note from my mother. My mother informed me that I have to stay at home alone, as she needed to help her sister to organise a wedding party. My mother left $300 for me. This took me with surprise at is was the first time that I stayed at home alone. Whilst eating my breakfast, I convinced myself that everything will be alright and I also thought about all the household
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and their uses, the five forces of influence and affects, and finally, commonly used mental model mindsets that guide decision-making and influence. The new owners want to add delivery of nonperishable products that includes canned foods, to their delivery routes because they believe that many of the routes do not require a full load on the trucks, and there is room to add nonperishable goods at a lower rate for customers. The two coworkers, Vernon, and Bud have difficulty accepting
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diseases. Their assignment was to complete a survey about their mood and overall attitude. The results were clear; people with the highest scores of happiness were more likely to exercise and were less likely to die during a five-year follow-up period.1 Thoughts are very powerful - the sooner we realize that the sooner we can start living the life of our dreams. Is positive thinking enough to change a life? No, because there are two components of the mind that are very different from each other. There
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The illusion of choice. This is a tale of a man called Harold. Harold worked at a fast food restaurant; he stood at his station day in and day out looking up at a screen. The screen told him what to cook, how to cook it and where to put it once he had cooked it. He was happy with his job, his wife, his life. But then all of a sudden, when he was standing at his station he looked up at the screen and nothing was there, there were no instructions or directions to tell him what to do. Harold felt a
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Capitalism ADI IGNATIUS: Now, your article is meant to fix a problem. What is the problem? MICHAEL PORTER: Well, the problem is I think we've gotten into a very vicious cycle in thinking about the relationship between business and society. And really, the purpose of capitalism, and the benefits of the capitalist system to society, and to meeting society's needs-- needs like improving people's lives, and improving the health of communities. We've gotten into a cycle where, I think, business has
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