Reimagine Your Creative Career Journey

II. You, Your Story, and Your Creative Career

How Do You Make Choices?

You’ve explored a bit about your environments, people, and skills. What about how you make decisions?

Please pull your 3 maps back out.

Write down your thoughts on these questions:

How did you make decisions in the past, when it was time to make a choice?
- Did you create a broad group of alternatives and fully evaluate them?
- Picked the first two that came along?
- Let the school or organization decide?
- Grab something that looked interesting?

None of these are wrong or right. However, you might have some patterns that you might want to rethink or break — or try something different in your Design of your Choices. Are you making your own design of how choices come into your life? Or are you accepting the choices that the “system” seems to be giving you?

Take a look and take a few minutes to look at each decision that you have made that you have shared in your Maps. Take some notes on what you see.

How are we SUPPOSED to make decisions?

Do we read the directions? Who writes the directions? Do we get an oral history from others about how jobs and careers work? Who do we learn decision-making from and where did they learn it?

It all depends on who you ask. . . and how different systems are rewarded for supporting you.