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Speed-breakers!

By Bamboo In The Wind

In emerging economies, speed-breakers have a unique purpose. They have an important purpose. They work flawlessly to slow down the speeding vehicles and protect the pedestrian traffic or avoid a traffic jam at an awkward intersection on the road. 

Speedy vehicles have a specific pattern. Speeding drivers tend to be in a rush, engrossed, agitated; in a state of anger or despair, and want to get over the emotion by driving quicker putting everyone else including themselves at risk.

Speedy actions by an individual, on the other hand, have a no different fate. Impulsive decisions often are speedy thoughts followed by speedy decisions to do something. Such decisions are based on inadequate information and pose a risk of unfavorable outcomes. 

We perhaps need to adopt speed breakers - in our ways to make decisions. Slowing down not to process our first thoughts would be an important part of such mental speed-breakers. Our thinking models need to utilize our thought generation engine and apply decision trees that fathom the outcome mind map before any real actions are taken.

Such speed-breakers will likely have immense benefits. Not every thought results in an action. We train ourselves to think about the impact of what we think and do if we acted on them. This opens up the possibility of creating a disciplined rhythm that regulates how to detect blind spots and avoid accidental outcomes.

All important matters require such mental speed-breakers and pre-processing units that lead us to actions. Developing speed-breakers requires developing habits that keep you on your toes. Inquiry-based thinking often makes you question what you think and want to do.

Intellectual speed-breakers help you openly inspect the validity of your thoughts and the impact thereof before any action takes place.

Impulsive thinking invariably results in accidental outcomes and surprises. Structured thinking, on the other hand, depends on paced iterative thought-process, and collaborative feedback and is likely to provide the impetus for positive outcomes. 

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