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<p>Prompt 2
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Good decision making generally requires people to think carefully and logically and to pay attention to practical details. However, people who depend on their feelings and emotions to make important decisions are not likely to spend hours gathering information, making lists, considering all possible outcomes, and so forth. When comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, “What do my feelings tell me?”</p>
<p>Assignment:
Should people let their feelings guide them when they make important decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<pre><code> Important decisions are often made not just on facts and statistics, but also feelings and emotions. Decisions based off feelings is a type of intuition, which often leads to the better choices. Peter Thiel, Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451, and the Montgomery Bus Boycotters all made important decisions based off feelings and emotions.
Peter Thiel, a self-made billionare and venture capitalist, founded PayPal while studying in Stanford. When Mark Zuckerberg confronted Thiel asking for an investment for his new start-up company, Facebook, Thiel was hesitant. He was unsure if Facebook had true potential, or would just crash and burn. In the end, Thiel invested $500,000 into Zuckerberg, because they had become close friends, even though the future of Facebook was uncertain. Evidently, by following his feelings, Thiel made the right decision in investing in the now multi-billion dollar corporation known as Facebook.
Ray Bradbury depicts a futuristic world where the government controls everything. The protagonist, Guy Montag, thinks the laws are harmful and limiting. He decides to follow his gut feeling and read a book. He discovers the truth about books and later finds others like himself in the outskirts of town. Following this emotions allows Montag to understand the truth, and with the other resistors, pass on their information from generation to generation. Montag’s feelings allows him to break from the government’s spell, and to think for himself.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the revolutionary events in America’s history. It showed not only the physical strength of African-Americans and their supporters, but also the emotional and psychological willpower they had. The boycotters refused to take busses for over a year, showing exactly how strong their feelings for equality really was. Without events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, there may not be Civil Rights today.
Everyday, many trivial decisions are made without thinking twice – almost a natural reflex. However, many important and life-altering decisions are made based of feeling and emotions, not just facts and details. As illustrated by Peter Thiel, Farenheit 451, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one’s feelings allow for the right decision to be made. Intuition based off emotions is a key element to one’s success.
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