My Decision To Pursue My Education After High School

In my life I have made many important decisions and the most important decision I have made was to continue my education after graduating from high school. During my senior year of high school I did not know what to do with my life like many other high school seniors feel like when they are nearing graduation. Did I want to go to school and continue my education?, did I want to join the military and serve our country or enter the workforce and become a nine to fiver. In the end I ended up a couple heuristics in my decision making process. In my decision making process while I was mulling over what I was going to do with my life when I received my high school diploma I looked to my peers around me and looked to see what they were doing out of highschool. Asking around my peer group I discovered that nearly all of my peers were going to college to continue their education when they got out of high school. I did not want to be the minority of my peer group. There were a couple of people going into the
This decision makes sense for people to use because it is the easiest to make and also no one wants to be the outsider. People like to feel safe and when you are in a group you feel safe because you are surrounded by your peers and if the group is wrong all the blame doesn't fall on you it falls on the group. And it is a hell of a lot easier to deal with failure when you are with a group then when you are alone and you take the full force of the failure. And this type of thinking I think doesn't involve the use of critical thinking thinking skills when a person uses various types of heuristics in their decision making. If you look at the six attributes of being a critical thinking (being open-minded, seeking truth, articulating relevant premises, being thorough, using logic and reason, and communicating effectively) you can see that most of the heuristic do not follow any of these