The Decision Making Process: How Critical and Creative Thinking Play a Role

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The Decision Making Process: How Critical and Creative Thinking Play a Role Decision making is one of the most complicated tasks to be completed; however, for many of us the ability to make a decision clearly and effectively comes naturally. We merely do not like to make the effort and put the time into analyzing and reaching the most desirable outcome. Learning to utilize critical and creative thought processes would eliminate some of the obstacles we run into while making a decision or solving a problem. With learning to think critically and creatively, one is learning to analyze, evaluate, conceptualize, apply, and synthesize the information placed before them and find the most reliable decision or answer. The Decision We all face and make difficult decisions in our life. It is seemingly the way life works. You make a decision to go to school, to better yourself, progress in life in order to become more successful or you choose to join the gym to become physically fit. Whatever the decision is, sometimes it comes easily and other times is does not. A decision that was difficult for me was choosing to pursue my Master’s degree through an online program, particularly, University of Phoenix. I had initially applied to a graduate program to study counseling at the university in my home town. I knew that the program was competitive and although I completed my undergraduate studies successfully, I did not graduate with a desirable GPA and I knew this would be an obstacle to entering a graduate program. I reviewed my situation, available options, chose, acted, and evaluated. I decided to apply to the local graduate school and worked closely with one of the professors and head of the counseling program. It was an exhausting process that took me through nearly ten months, where I was told I would be able to enter the program by completing a ‘variance application’. To

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