#myownperspective

Ever caught up with “Something doesn’t feel right” or “Things doesn’t fit something is wrong” moment in your life? That often lead you to answer this doubtful insights or intuitions in to a decision that some sort haste and fast that often give like a BLINK in an eye type of decision.

According to Malcolm Gladwell, BLINK is about human rapid cognition, a thinking that is a lot faster than we can realize it, and a thinking that operates quite mysteriously in comparison to our commonly used careful, planned, and thoughtful decision making.

Moreover, he continues to provide innumerable such examples of thin-slicing in contexts such as speed dating, tennis, gambling, military war games, malpractice suits, popular music, etc.

The argument is how the unconscious thought over powers a logically- thought decision and proves beneficial.

The author explains that when we are thin-slicing or making our snap judgment, our unconscious that makes those decisions for us, even before our conscious starts working on that information. Hence, the title “the power of thinking without thinking.” Our unconscious attitudes and prejudices play a deep role in our judgments and snap decisions. Gladwell (2005) deeply elaborates why and where can our mind reading abilities fail. He then spins your attention to the ability of problem solving—which involves a great deal of decision making. Some problem solving requires a flash of insight while some logic based-ones require explanations and thorough explanations. And this comes the Rational Decision Making.

Rational decision making is a multi-step process for making choices between alternatives. The process of rational decision making favors logic, objectivity, and analysis over subjectivity and insight. The word "rational" in this context does not mean sane or clear-headed as it does in the colloquial sense.

“Real change that is the direction of our way of governance. Far from being mere slogans, these were battle cries articulated by me in behalf of people hungry for genuine and meaningful change. But change, if it is to be permanent and significant, must start with us and in us. To borrow the language of F. Sionil Jose, we have become our own worst enemies. And we must have the courage and the will to change ourselves.”

-          President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Speech during his Inauguration)

As quoted above on the speech of President Duterte in relation to the word “Change”. Change is something is often misquoted but as of the emerging of our new administration where it deflects some norms of our society. Norms where define by people who mostly in the “alta sosyodad” leaving the real meaning of humility.

Thus for me, the change we see now is the change we need because with my own perception and as what I observed, Filipinos must re-learn and re-visit the true meaning of “Nationalism” and “Self-Discipline”, especially now that the mentality of each Filipinos are easily be swayed by any cultures – western.

Just like in our home, a father must be strict in implementing rules and regulations inside the house so that his children must establish a certain consequences if they deviate his rules and regulations. Children value something and retain some lessons in their life especially if something drastic happened to them. It will forever itch on their memories the true value of discipline and nationalisms.

This is what I see on how President Duterte establish the word ‘change”. Drastic but it gave our brain something to think off – either we are selfless or selfish towards the welfare of our country.

One of the reason according the writer why our economy grow for the past months was due to the election. The economy always does better in election years. It is because there was an election-related spending by both candidates and the government provides a sufficient boost to significantly explain the difference.

Another indication on our growth was the domestic economy. Domestic economy posted an annual growth rate of 6.9 percent in the first three months of the year, against only 5 percent in the same period last year. That GNP/GNI grew significantly faster than GDP implies that incomes that Filipinos earned overseas grew even faster than what was earned here at home; indeed, the data say that such overseas income grew by 10.7 percent. I agree on this part as the writer stated, because technically every Filipino wants to work abroad since the income is high and that the revenue from our Overseas Filipino Workers to their family in the country increases. The higher the number of the Filipino working abroad the higher the revenue the higher the GNP – and this was proven on the previous reported GNP.

So, where did the boost in the domestic economy come from? This can be answered through the numbers of spending (demand) side and the production (supply) side.

With the advent of our present administration, government spending for both consumption and infrastructure. Which is yes it was pre-started during the previous administration but still the support and the stand of present of administration regarding infrastructure is tantamount and clear. Apart from this, the other sources of demand for the goods and services the economy produces are private consumers, firms spending on investments, and foreigners buying our exports of goods and services, including visiting tourists. Looking at growth from the production side of the economy gives us a clearer picture of who are benefiting from the growing economy which was stated respectively.