Throughout life you come along many situations where you have to make a certain decision and in that split moment you don 't realize that your response makes a huge impact on the outcome in the situation. People don’t tend to realize each response is followed by another, and each decision is as important as the next. All the decisions we make help form the outcomes in our life. Throughout the duration of this essay, I will be discussing the idea of E+R=O and how I have been able to utilize this concept in my own life, knowing what it means now. When I began this course, I have never heard of what E+R=O was or thought about the ‘equation’. Knowing now that Event + Response = Outcome means what it means, it has helped me in many circumstances in my personal life. I am pleased to share the meaning and further depth of the concept, as well as elucidate how it helped me during a tough situation in my life.
Living your everyday life, you could ask yourself, what is the main thing that affects your life? The answer could easily be your responses. Responses occur in your everyday life simply by what decisions you make and how you decide to respond to situations. Often times, you do not realize that each choice you make, helps shape the result of the event. You make choices minute by minute throughout your daily routine, some that seem so minimal and can end up having a drastic outcome in your life. Which is where understanding E+R=O becomes a huge factor in our lives, because how
Life is like a game of blackjack where we unknowingly are dealt good or bad cards. This unpredictability makes it difficult to gamble decisions. Unfortunately many factors can lead to the bad card where in both the game and life, people are trying to prevent us from achieving the goal. There are two choices to change the outcome however, we may either give up (fold) or we may take a chance (call). The beauty of taking the risk is that if lucky, life gives you that much-needed card. When dealt that winning card, a person is immediately uplifted. That one good hand drives a person to outweigh the pros from the cons and continue to strive for the winning pot or in this case, the goal in life. Enrique in Sonia Nazario’s
Since the beginning of time, the environment in which one is accustomed to provides them with the choices that lead down paths that make their legacy. This environment can be negative or positive, structured or chaotic, rich or poor, all which give a variety of choices. Regardless of the different trials and tribulations we face ultimately, it is the choices we make in response that make us the person we become.
Through it all there can be a factor/difference that can be daunting in a person’s life and the way they handle it is eventually up to them and will effect in some way, shape, or form.
Anything you do makes you change who you are. Even what happens in your life can affect your choices you make that shape your identity.
Choices, they change us as humans and can greatly affect our lives. There is a book that showcases this completely describes this perfectly, this book is Tangerine. In the book Tangerine, many choices are made by the main character, his friends and his family that affects what happens and other people's feelings. Choices, even small ones can change lives.
You are the greatest force for determining your outcome because the decisions you make can affect you in the long run, attitude affects your lifestyle, and the outlook determines your future. The decisions you make everyday can either be small or big. One must encounter choices that have to be made everyday. Those decisions can be made at work, school, home, and even the town that you live in.
My connections look at how certain choices can affect your life forever. The texts that I used to convey this link were The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont and a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. Throughout the texts used we learn that you cannot always see the outcome of a particular choice unless you choose to go down that path. An important decision is made by the main character(s) in each text and they suggest that not all choices are easy to make and can have positive and negative consequences.
The author's intention is to not only present accurate information for the readers, but also grant them a space to reflect on the emotional truth in order to have the ability to take actions on their own terms.
This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective ' observes in some detail the ways in which we engage the world through sixteen different emotions, with several of their permutations. Following Heidegger; who believes that emotions tunes us to the world and Sartre; who reasons that emotions have a purpose, Solomon claims that we are responsible for our emotions. This coincides with the fundamental Stoic insight that we “are” our emotions. Aristotle discussed certain emotions at length, notably anger, which he described in remarkably modern terms. Commonly classified as a basic negative and destructive emotion, emotional reactions can usefully be read as, and ultimately even identified with, strategies we adopt as a way of dealing with the challenges of our lives- for example, prompting us to fight for justice and protecting our rights. Thus even
Tavris and Aronson discuss the main idea of this chapter—cognitive dissonance. As it is the engine of self-justification like it is mentioned in the first page of the chapter, cognitive dissonance allows the person to reflect two different cognitions and know the justifications to actions and decisions. Tavris and Aronson use the example of smoking to exemplify the reduction in dissonance. Considering cognitive dissonance, the authors reveal that dissonance challenges behaviorism. People should know that even if there is a painful situation laid front of their life path, achieving something by going through that path will make them a superior person and that goal will become even more attractive. In addition, explained by the authors, the
This theme is relevant to contemporary life, because of its connections to many religions and philosophies around the world. In Hinduism and Buddhism it is called “the sum of a person's actions in this and
Human beings have a biological instinct to resist unusual. Our behaviors are influence through certainty. Not only do we learn through certainty, more significantly we are able to predict its outcome. However there are times when we just don't know why things happen or what to do after it has happened. The focus of this research is to illustrate that people react negatively to events that are uncertain because an outcome cannot be predicted.
Life is a product of a choice. Every aspect of a person’s life rely on their decisions, thus it is essential to contemplate all factors. It is commonly argued that factual evidence should be the sole determinate when making a decision, however emotions should also play a significant role in the process. Although, scientific facts are crucial to consider in many situations, such as the circumstances presented in the short story, “The Cold Equations,” by Tom Godwin, both human emotion and fact must be considered when making a decision.
Molded by the choices we make, our lives can change drastically at any point in time. These decisions will either direct to the right or wrong path. Each path has a different destiny that could possibly take place. The natural surrounding influences one’s path. Curiosity, a common humane feeling, makes people wonder why something happens in a certain way. How people make their decisions and choices - a common question which passes through many people's minds. Every thought or action taken by an individual or a group, in one way or the other, influenced by the environment and the people around them.
• that a person can learn to become aware of the interaction of cognition, emotion, and behavior; and that altering the ones that may be more directly under our control or influence – cognition and behavior – will impact the person’s responses on all levels.