{"id":2739,"date":"2015-07-09T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:49:17","slug":"marginal-thinking-our-personal-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2015\/07\/marginal-thinking-our-personal-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Thinking &#038; Our Personal Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2740\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decisions-Decisions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2740\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decisions-Decisions-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CC Garrett Coakley via Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decisions-Decisions-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decisions-Decisions-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Decisions-Decisions.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC Garrett Coakley via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Clayton Christensen eloquently takes the conventional\u00a0business idea of marginal thinking and applies it to personal decision-making, in this <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/7007.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Business School piece<\/a>. We may think that making a decision to cross our personal boundaries \u201cjust this once\u201d might have a low\/marginal cost, but when we begin to weigh the\u00a0actual costs, we could\u00a0end up bankrupt or down the rabbit hole of lies and deception. Christensen asks us to question our personal values and morals. That&#8217;s what the devil and angel on our shoulders are for, right?<\/p>\n<p>How do you confront this idea of marginal thinking when decisions of this kind are placed in front of you? Tell us about a time when your personal morals and values were questioned and the \u201cjust this once\u201d mentality kicked in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Christensen eloquently takes the conventional\u00a0business idea of marginal thinking and applies it to personal decision-making, in this Harvard Business School piece. We may think that making a decision to cross our personal boundaries \u201cjust this once\u201d might have a low\/marginal cost, but when we begin to weigh the\u00a0actual costs, we could\u00a0end up bankrupt or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[575,566,296,574,573,572,46],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-2739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"tag-actual-cost","9":"tag-core-values","10":"tag-decision-making","11":"tag-marginal-cost","12":"tag-marginal-thinking","13":"tag-morals","14":"tag-value-2","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}