Class 1-14 (Decision Making)

Class 1 Christian Wiman Sorrow Flower

Christian Wiman Sorrow Flower

Burden of making decision for us and for others

So why not make decision well

There is no right way

Wisdom is accepting the truth of this

Courage is going foward in spite of this

Fait is finding youself in your deepest pars of soul

Class 2 Howard/Abbas

Normative decision, what they out to be

Descriptive decision, how they actually are

Decision are declared, we willingly make them

-> Choice between 2 or more alternatives that involves the iravocable allocation of resources

-> delibarating, to only think/talk about a decision without actually making it

Venn diagram, thought, action, actional thought

Decision are hard: stakholders, uncertinty of outcomes, time pressure, other constraints

Decision ≠ Outcome

Degree of beliefe determine probability (subjective)

Good Decision = Freedom to not regret

Stoll, 3 legs = what you can do, what you know, what you want. Top = logic. We = committed decision maker

Meddalion / thumback / roulette story

Binding process -> what the potential reward is worth to me

Clarvoince -> what the ideal outcome is with the removal of all uncertainty

Probability comes from a person

Sunk cost, what you have already given up, what do you learn from you decision outcomes

Class 3 Daniel Kanhamn the last decision

being confident in your decision making

Peak-End Rule (people judge an experience by its peak, and its end, not its average through the 2)

Outsideview, being able to gather information/options

Do you have core values

What makes a good decision:

- decision maker

- Frame

- Alternatives

- Prefrances

- Infomration

- Logic/method

Class 4 Jasson Jennings Decsion trees

Pascal Wagner -> Does god exist, do you believe, do you not believe

Outcomes Possabilitaties -> probability assicated with those outcomes -> pay off -> expected value

Pirates fly the falg to scare, they have a reputation that adds to others decsion trees

The last responsable moment

- Maxmize time to collect information

- Minamize premature commitments

- Maintains Flexibility

Type 1 Decsion -> one way dors (more thinking)

Type 2 Decsion -> 2 way dors (you can always come back, quicker decision) (heurisitcs)

Class 5 Karl Rahner S.J. German Philosopher

Permanance of ones decsion (every decision does cary some weight in some way) Succesion of moments

Permance of time (evidence)

- Reality that perdures admits change (flower)

- Ability to make time stand still (past, present, future)

- Free presonal decisiol, a decsion that needs all of you to make the decsion (complex decision) (not just picking a sandwich)

Class 6 Zhaungzi Dau - Gosepls/ROG

Dauist beliefe:

- We are born good -> education and society make as bad (uncorupt to corupt)

- Dau = mother/creator, guides, nurture, and wants us to floursih

- Emptyness, need for emptyness to think clearly. Woodcarver story, makeshimself empty, taking his time (Fasting of the mind)

Zhaungzi = Daust Religios Thinker, who refutes the Confuciust religon/way of thinking

New Testimate -> Mathew, Mark, Luke, John

Gosepls = portraits ≠ transcripts

- All interpratations from different angles, but all with overlap

- Writen all after jesus death

Contents of the portraits = Reign of God

ROG = Event like a wedding

- things you can and cant do at an even (the values and enemies of the ROG)

Gosepls, not ment to make you feel, but to make you question and think

You can hurry to the event, or be patient

- Patient, wait till harvest (wheat story)

- Hurry, once you are there you are there (drag net)

- Yellow Light, does one hurry, or does one be patient

Class 7 Possabiliaties Howard/Abbas (hidden Envelope + Supper mario)

Making distinctions -> take time to view all options (beer, college)

- Clarity, observability, usefullness

Collectivly exhaustive -> all possible options

Mutually exclusive -> doing one option prevents you from doing another

Elemental Possabilaties -> the options of options

Compound Possabilites -> outcomes of elemntal possabilities (beer+college+doctor)

Class 8 R Sunstien Decsion about decision

Maxamize -> Happiness/Pleasure, Meaningfulness/Flourishing, psychological richness (can be more or a combo of)

Drifiting, being the object of another persons decision

picking-> least significant decison

chosing -> somewhat significatn decision

option -> hardest/deepest decision

Welfare -> am I and my stakholders better off

Information helps illuminate/eliminate options

Not wanting to know -> information = usless

wanting not to know -> knowing would make you worse off, go out of way not to know

WTP = willingness to pay -> for info/knowledge

Instrumental value -> info/knowledge that helps you come to a conclusion of a decision

affective value -> emotional value of knowing

Blocks to making good decision:

- Present bias, short term gain > long term gain

- Loss aversion, not lossing > possible gain

- Optamistic bias, overstimating how good the outcome will be

- Focusing allusion, not looking at the bigger picture

- Strategic self ignorance, avoiding knowledge so one doesnt have to act on it

Class 9 A Man For all Seaoson (Robert Bolt)

Plot= King wants marrage, goes against pope, Thomas More = Bischop, Doesnt agree, says nothing, Richard Rich turns on him and lies. Thomas more Dies, Richard better off

Thomas mores Option =

- Tell everyone he disagrees

- Tell everyone he agrees

- Say nothing (opting not to opt)

Richard rich, does anything for gain

Duke of Nurfolk, does anyhting for gain

Thomas More, stays true to his values

Values identify "live" options, what you will actually do

Class 10 Burried and found tressure

- ROG is like tressure in a field, when one finds it, sells all his stuff, and buys the field (joy)

- ROG is like merchants searching for pearls, once he find the one, sells all his stuff and buys it (absurdity/Risky) (puts everything into one item, takes himself out from being a merchant)

Swiss Chesse -> one has holes, Multiple = Solid

- Need multiple Parrables to talk about the ROG

One must surrender fully to the ROG

Allegorizing, All stories have meaning, Story isint nothing without meaning

Alternative Standers on how you want to live your life

- How fulfilling is acquisitiveness - does it ever end - what do we truly want

When you see what you truly want, are you ready to go all in on it (clear values)

Jesus ROG, devoted fully, no regrets

Do I know the ultimate concern of my Neighbor

Class 11 Weeping for Dido

Augustine born 354 in Thagaste

Mother = Monica Father = Patric

Carthage -> where he studdyed

Hippo-> became bishop (augustine of hipp)

Greek Roman philossophy, Aristotal points down, Plato point up (trancendece, supernatural)

Humans Create sin (Orignial Sin)

Augustine = first Autobiography, very emotinal/open (Dido and Anaes)

Has a big shift in values

Our hearts are restless untile they rest in you (Augustine Flourashing)

Values Pushed onto him -> Gramer/rehotirc, Parents desires (christianty)

Sinning -> social Ascpet + Being fun (Orginal Sin)

Manacheism

- Syncretic -> god is found around us

- Dualistic -> There is always an oppositve

Class 12

Faustus -> Manachien Bischop that has "all the ansewrs", good with his tounge, but no real meaning

Women, Mother/Wife is never mentioned (no importance)

Ambruos, Milan, actual meaning in his words

Alypius, Friend, sucumbs at the games

Nebrius, Friend of augustine

Death of Friend -> feeling of half fullness/restlessness

Though he found himself in manacheasm, but actually it is in christiany, CHANGE OF VALUES

Reflecting, looking in instead of out

Class 13 Tolle Lege

Garden Hopping = Creation (eden) -> Fall (pears) -> Conversion (Milan) -> Fulfimnet (ostia)

Orginal Goodness, everything is created good

Orginal sin, inherted want to sin

Coruption only takes place when things are good

Priviation, evil has no existence of its own, there need to be good for there to be evil

Sin + Conversion = Both Social

Conversion, planting your roots in richer deepr soil

Monica, Triable upbringing, Camla Herders, Manarge = enslavement

- Preeches being able to turn a cheek

Give me Chasity and continence but not Yet

- Want to convert but not yet, not truelly going all in/giving up to the ROG

Class 14 Amish Grace

Decision Forgivness, conscious/mental decision to forgive

- Action not just said

- Coeoprative/group action

Emotional Forgivness, substitution of negative emotions with posative one

- Takes time

Forgivness vs Anger

-Anger consumes You

-Way things unfould is gods plan

Pardon, you must suffer consequences

Reconciliation, resotration of relationship