There are two essential skills for students as well as adults. These two skills are problem-solving and decision making. Everyone uses these skills in a regular basis in their day to day lives and mastering these skills can help in every aspect of one’s life. In many schools in this country individuals are not taught these skills in a significant way throughout the public education system. In many cases these skills are learned through trial and error. Children start to learn these skills later in school when it seems to become necessary. Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills should be used in all decisions, both large and small and they are important skills to have throughout life. These skills need to be taught at a young age to somewhat get a jumpstart of what will be faced in young adulthood as well as throughout life.
Mobile phone companies bombard consumers with advertisements about their products, services and networks. They are all claiming their products, services, and network is better than everyone else’s. How do you know which one to go with? It is important when making a decision about what phone to get and what network to go with to not just rely on the advertisements. Marketers and advertisers work extremely hard to make their products appealing to the consumer and in many cases will say anything to get the consumer to buy their product. Another thing consumers need to consider before purchasing a phone and services is, does the phone and services meet all of their needs sufficiently? If a consumer does not ask questions and use their critical thinking and decision making skills before making a purchase it can result in a long term contract they cannot get out of and a phone that does not work for them and they are not satisfied with.
There are several steps that one needs to follow before making a decision like purchasing a new cell phone and service. One should analyze and simplify the information he or she...