How A Decision Can Save Your Life

Mr. Galen Litchfield, the manager of Asia Life Insurance, was in Shanghai when the Japanese troops. That was in 1942, after the invasion of Pearl Harbor.

A Japanese Admiral was the liquidation of the company. Litchfield was in liquidation. He had no choice. It may be accompanied or are in the dark consequences of death.

It was, for a list of facilities of the company, but it was a block of securities worth $ 750,000, which is left of the list as held by the organization and Hong Kong was in Shanghai is not part of the assets.

But he feared the Admiral’s wrath should the omission be discovered.

And it was shortly thereafter.

Litchfield was not in the office, if the discovery was made, the head accountant.

Litchfield, new cooling a Sunday afternoon. The accountant told him that the Admiral had flown into a terrible anger. He cursed and trampelt and Markengeschefft Litchfield a thief, a traitor, and rogues.

Litchfield knew the consequences of the brave of the Japanese army. They were dark. He would fling the Bridge House! The name is a man full of fear. It was a torture chamber. Litchfield had personal friends, suicide, and not be taken to the Bridge House. Other friends had died in Bridge House after only ten days. Now, it seemed Litchfield himself was for the Chamber of Secrets.

Litchfield has been assigned to the typewriter in his room at the YMCA, he wrote two questions. The first: what do I order? The second: what to do? It was this technique for years, if it is a problem. Well, the answer might be to save lives. Write the answers to these questions clarified his thinking.

He wrote that the problem was that he was afraid it might be in one of the Bridge House.

“What”, he asks, “would it make?”

He spent hours to answer the second question. He came with four options and weigh each.

One could try to speak Japanese admiral. But the admiral did not speak English. It could be the interpreter, but it could try to admiral, as he was a cruel and irrational man who prefers to leave the Bridge House with sadistic interrogations.

Two, he might try to escape. But his chances are low. The Japanese keep track of him all the time. He had to consider, and his room at the YMCA If he attempts to escape capture, he would be killed.

Three, he in his room and never be near the new office. But when, in the Admiral would be suspect. The soldiers around him, and it would be included in the Bridge House.

Four, it could go to a post on Monday morning, as usual, to do so, that nothing was wrong. Maybe the admiral would have cooled. Perhaps it would be too busy to remember. Or, perhaps, the admiral would have a chance to explain why the gap in the list.

After lengthy discussion, the fourth option appeared favorable. He offered the best chance of survival.

Once he took the decision and a commitment to follow a wave of relief swept on. Exhausted, he went to bed and slept well.

When he is in the office on Monday, the admiral was smoking a cigarette. Greulich He shone at Litchfield but said nothing. Six weeks have passed and to date the Admiral did nothing to the topic. Then, the admiral was the return to Tokyo.

The success of principle

Take a decision and act. It could even save your life.

The principle at work

Galen Litchfield experience shows the importance of taking a decision. He was caught in a no-win situation. Any decision would be bad. There was no way to resolve this dilemma. However, no decision is a decision. It is choosing to act impulsively, and not rational. There are also consequences for them.