ONLY LIARS AND ALIENS DON'T SUFFER FROM POOR JUDGEMENT

So what is poor judgement? I have a long held irritation with people who are quick to accuse others of displaying poor judgement. It implies that a person is one thing or another - either a good decision maker or a bad decision maker.

I wasn't convinced by this premise so I typed on Google search 'define poor judgement' and got a list of sites willing to help me out. I clicked on thefreedictionary.com definition and got this meaning: 'the act or process of judging; the formation of an opinion after consideration or deliberation'.

The definition revealed what I had suspected all along. Displaying poor judgement is a hit and miss affair. Displaying sound judgement is not an exclusive club which you can never enter into once you have displayed poor judgement.

The very nature of deliberating whether someone makes good or bad decisions is itself, in my view, an exercise of poor judgement. It leads to perception that bears little or no reflection on the reality. Such deliberating demonstrates an ignorant and sometimes malicious streak which masks the insecurities of the perpetrators.

So what is considered poor judgement by these perpetrators? More often than not it is decisions that lead to mistakes or failure in business, personal and other affairs. It's almost a taboo nowadays to make mistakes. It is almost perceived as a sign of weakness, which is ridiculous. The very nature of a progressive individual demands that she steps out of her comfort zones into the unknown in pursuit of success and progress. That takes courage. In the process, mistakes are bound to happen.

The best way of exercising sound judgement is not just by making the right decision in the first place but also - if mistakes happen - by how one learns from these mistakes or how one builds on success. In truth how many decisions are as black and white as right or wrong? Not many, I should think.

For every mistake there is a learning opportunity. Every human being exercises both sound and poor judgement depending on the circumstances. It is not a hereditary situation.

If someone says to you they always exercise sound judgement I can confidently predict they are lying. Then again I may be wrong. They may be telling the truth but they sure as hell are not from planet earth!

So if someone says to you 'I question your judgement', say to them 'I question your humanity'.