Each person sooner or later thinks: "And am I going in that direction? Am I not making a mistake?" How to understand whether the right choice was made or all his thoughts, analysis led to another global mistake?
Instruction manual
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Deal with the terms. More often than not, by “right” we mean “for the benefit of ourselves” and “for the common good”. If the situation is difficult, and there is no one to consult, the best friend is a dictionary of synonyms, paper and pen. A word with a fuzzy meaning (for example, the word "correctly") needs to choose the synonym that will respond in the heart. Or pick up the words yourself, reveal this word. You can even write a whole essay in order to extract the same cherished meaning from the subconscious. When the word is found, it is written out on a clean slate, emphasized and designated as the goal. And then move on to the next step.
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Keep emotions in check. We often make decisions based on feelings (if not hormones), and cold calculation and logic are disabled at this time. Accordingly, the solution seems right to us at first. And when the head cools, it’s not very. It must be understood that absolutely correct decisions are extremely rare. Each of them is adequate to its situation. And there is no single answer to a question such as: "Was it worth the ex-boyfriend to call at night?"
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Check the results. There is a wise rule, which in a simplified form is formulated as follows: "Wrong choice leads to a dead end." In a positive way, it means: "If the choice you make increases the number of new opportunities, new ways, then you thought correctly." After making a decision, a person usually doubts himself, and therefore the changes that come immediately seem negative to him. So, he thought wrongly and did wrong. However, after some time, when the memory erases the negative and leaves the positive, the person realizes that his act was not done in vain. To think correctly, we must avoid the traps of our own feelings and not balance between self-flagellation and self-justification.
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Learn the logic. Actually, her second name is “the science of the ability to think correctly”, “the art of correct reasoning”. Any difficult situation can be decomposed into a chain of logical and illogical actions. The mind needs to be trained the way we train the legs if we want to run a cross. More logical tasks, tests for quick wits, for the ability to analyze information and combine disparate data. And then the whole number of incorrect conclusions and annoying everyday mistakes will be reduced at times.
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There is a saying "Forget your troubles, come on get happy" - "Forget your difficulties and just be happy." Sometimes our insecurity, the fear of taking responsibility for our actions very hinder us from living. And instead of thinking easily and naturally, choosing different roads and different people, a person locks himself in doubts. And completely in vain.