David777
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Much, much too broad a question. Another thread I would prefer the OP had more narrowly defined unless they are purposely gaming the rest of us just to watch reactions. Each person on this board might consider how it applies to their own life situations So "it depends" on much specifics of given situations.
What does one do:
1) to change the behaviors of other's one cares for like relatives addicted to substances like cigarette, alcohol or worse?
Well one should ALWAYS at least "Think it over?" and at least communicate concerns occasionally when appropriate while understanding one does not have the power to change them if they don't want to change. Just as others one might request advice from will likely advise.
2) when a complex technology product one has knowledge and skill over like recently my current unbootable Dell laptop.
I didn't need to "Think it over?" because it was something I did regularly in my career. When those efforts were exhausted, I understood there was nothing more I could reasonably do other than set it aside until I could give the task to special hard drive services that might be able to manually resurrect the corrupt boot files.
3) When within a group of others with higher skill levels as was often my situation working in electronic engineering groups, a software problem was beyond my own abilities to resolve?
Well I would indeed "Think it over?" to the level of how much I felt I ought make a strong effort to resolve myself but at some point after that effort in order to not waste my own time and department resources, would approach a higher level person for their advice.
3) if one is in a small group of others out in a remote wilderness and someone suffers an injury that threatens expected activities for the rest of an elaborately planned and agreed to week long trip?
Well I would not "Think it over?", but immediately work together with the rest of the group to reach a consensus of how to proceed.
Many more unique situations, I could conjure up the rest of this afternoon. But now this break is over and will go back to watching a 193 minute long episode of Fall of Civilizations podcast video: 14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors of South India, I may finish before driving north to a fair.
What does one do:
1) to change the behaviors of other's one cares for like relatives addicted to substances like cigarette, alcohol or worse?
Well one should ALWAYS at least "Think it over?" and at least communicate concerns occasionally when appropriate while understanding one does not have the power to change them if they don't want to change. Just as others one might request advice from will likely advise.
2) when a complex technology product one has knowledge and skill over like recently my current unbootable Dell laptop.
I didn't need to "Think it over?" because it was something I did regularly in my career. When those efforts were exhausted, I understood there was nothing more I could reasonably do other than set it aside until I could give the task to special hard drive services that might be able to manually resurrect the corrupt boot files.
3) When within a group of others with higher skill levels as was often my situation working in electronic engineering groups, a software problem was beyond my own abilities to resolve?
Well I would indeed "Think it over?" to the level of how much I felt I ought make a strong effort to resolve myself but at some point after that effort in order to not waste my own time and department resources, would approach a higher level person for their advice.
3) if one is in a small group of others out in a remote wilderness and someone suffers an injury that threatens expected activities for the rest of an elaborately planned and agreed to week long trip?
Well I would not "Think it over?", but immediately work together with the rest of the group to reach a consensus of how to proceed.
Many more unique situations, I could conjure up the rest of this afternoon. But now this break is over and will go back to watching a 193 minute long episode of Fall of Civilizations podcast video: 14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors of South India, I may finish before driving north to a fair.
