Making good decisions needs skill or instinct?

In making decisions in life I can't say I can go through my instinct because sometimes it may slip but it may based it through experience because it was a lesson on how you handle obstacles and challenges in life. Through experience you became strong to face all challenges and became a wiser decision maker. Also, I based my decision making on its advantages and disadvantages of the present that may cause the future.

You are telling the truth friend because our instincts are our conscience,that we all have it working well in our brains.Our instincts would also change as we are becoming matured,but it is the same we have decided when we are younger,yet our decision during these time is more on security than easy going.That is why you have to think and balance your decision not to cause a trouble in the future,that is must be beneficial to anyone.

Of course that has happened to me many times.I think that has happened to everyone at some time in their lives.It's part of life.What is right for now may not be right a year from now,ten years from now or even tomorrow! Like you buy your five year old son a suit to wear to church that suit is not going to fit him next year.......unless you tell him not too eat.OK,seriously,you may have only $20 and don't paid for 2 more days,but rent is due in 8 days.So,you buy the food for the family for the next few days and worry about then rent then.You gotta' do what you gotta' do! Or you moved into a house and it has no stove.So,you buy one.Then the next place you move to already has a stove,better then yours.Now you don't need your stove.Oh well stuff happens.

I think it's a bit of both skill and instinct. Some people (re: skill) seem able to pull the strategy from themselves easily which is needed to solve even the worst problems, and some other people seem to just instinctively know what the right solutions would be. Those who possess both those skills together are the lucky ones.

I think it has to be a balance of both. If you have the necessary skills to fully assess the outcome of your decision and how it will affect your future, well and good. But sometimes, your instinct nags at you and you know deep down in your gut that something is a bit off. Just strike a balance between the two and I'm sure it will definitely help you make the right decision.

I agree that they do tend to blend together. As you get older its hard to mask your instinct especially being a parent. My motherly instinct takes over without a doubt. I try very hard to see thing with skill and go by my instinct as well. My decisions are instinctive backed by my knowledge and skill. It works well for me.

I would say instict, but sometimes it doesn't help and skill/experience/knowledge is the way to go. Usually for practical or less important decisions. Skill may be an important factor in instict but not the other way around.

Its all start at very young age of three when we all are young and if we are met lot more tougher disicssion at that very young age then our skills would be beyound others level. Our analytical skill depends on how we try to improvise them from our young age and when we get adult we know what we have to do and the best result will decide who is better than whome.

I think you definitely need a mixture of skill and instinct to make god decisions. The fact is that as you go through life you learn lessons that you can use in future decision making processes. But there is a risk associated with always making decisions based on past experience and that is you can limit yourself to what you have always had in the past - such as in relationships, food, life experiences. You also need to allow yourself to make decision based on gut feeling and instinct as these will allow you to have different experiences in life that you wouldn't have if you always make them on skill. The real skill is in deciding when to be cautious and stick with what you know, and when to be a little risky and throw caution to the wind, follow your instinct and see where it leads. This is the real skill in decision making!

Both of them are needed to make good decisions. You need skills to decide fast and and you need instinct to decide what is the right thing to do. It depends also in the situation that you will encounter. Therefore, skills and instinct should be combined to have a best decisions.

I try to make decisions based on what really feels good to me. I found out that most of the time, they always turn out to be the right one. :) Those times that it didn't well, i realized that when I made those decisions, I was feeling happy but there were some negative feelings feelings nagging through. I realized that making good decisions really stems from feeling good about the decision first without a hint of doubt. It worked for me. :)

That's precisely why we are not only endowed with instincts but also with consciousness and wisdom from experiences. We ca not truly rely on just one to get to the best decisions. It is nice to consider the future, but then there's no guarantee that we'd get to see the future.. Mu judgment call, personally, is based on what needs to be done for the present. As for the future, I'll cross the bridge when I get there. :D

Yes but as you learn over the years skill and instinct can blend together because there are logical people and also realistic people. So they're instincts are really the skills they have acquired and knowledge. I tend to base of my instincts because I like to look at the situation as a whole no matter what it is as simple as choosing food (: