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The Documentary Podcast

World of Wisdom: Making decisions

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Decisions about the course of our lives can seem overwhelming. When we come to a junction in our life it can be hard to decide which way to turn. Is there a process to make those choices easier, and increase the chance of success? Sister Dang Nghiem offers insights to Pae from Thailand as she tries to make a confident decision about her future career.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC World Service. I am Santa Safi and welcome to World of Wisdom

0:06.7

where we explore ways to address some of the personal issues that life turns up.

0:20.0

Have you ever felt that your life is at a crossroads? That what you choose next will have huge implications?

0:25.0

I suppose we all have.

0:30.0

How do we decide which road to take? This is a question that occupies Pays Mind.

0:37.0

She is a young woman in Thailand who is wondering about career, family and whether to teach and travel abroad.

0:45.6

She spoke to Sister Dangany game. Here is a shortened version of their conversation.

0:51.5

I feel like I am at the junction in my life and I don't know what to do next.

0:58.0

How do I go about making big decisions about my futures when I have made it. How do I know if I have made the right decision

1:08.8

for me to be happy? Wonderful, pay.

1:14.0

That's a very big question.

1:16.0

Especially for a young person like you.

1:20.0

Dear pay, in your question, I hear a lot of wisdom. You said that you're 32, but you feel maybe like you're running half time and so there's this great

1:39.6

pressure to to make a clear decision about your life.

1:47.9

Every stage in our lives,

1:49.9

we actually feel the pressure to make choices, make decisions, and to go forward with them.

2:01.3

And in that way, we also feel that once we make the decision, they have to be the right decision,

2:08.0

that we will just follow a straightforward course.

2:12.0

But from my experience I studied medicine. So I spent 24 years in school and then I became a in my life like the death of my partner really

2:31.2

walk me up and you see I grew up with a complex that maybe am nobody and I don't

2:37.6

deserve a place in this world so I always strived to prove myself.

2:44.4

And here I was a medical doctor with a wonderful loving partner,

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