Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, my friend it’s good to see you my friend. As usual a fascinating post for I have never heard of Descartes Square. It seems to me that this is indeed a viable tool for decision making. Having no knowledge of this, on the surface it seems to have it’s limitations in that it is more useful in the corporate world. This is not to say it has limited or no value in our personal lives. For example, with me not being a part of the corporate world in any way, I think that the “higher ups” on the corporate world have an advantage in that they have more time to utilize this practice. They have more time to ask/ponder these questions in the corporate milieu such as the many meetings they attend. On a personal level I think it has great value when we consider “things” that we can afford to take the time to think about. Things such as taking time for a vacation, buying/selling a house, buying a cell phone for our teenagers. NOOOOOOOOOOO! But again on a personal level I think it has limited utility when it comes to a fire fight at home, that “spirited debate”, aka the fights all relationships have. I don’t think we have the time, or take advantage of the time available to us, to go through Descartes Square when engage in that all too familiar spousal fight. I prefer the term spirited debate.

I would like to offer one other option that since I have now discovered Descartes Square. I call it Pearce Hawk’s Pentagon. In this scenario, unlike the square, this is a pentagon where when the issue at hand concerns a serious problem that affects me directly, there is one question I would add that makes it a pentagon. The question being, what is my contribution to the problem. Adding that can, I believe, enhance the questions in Descartes’ Square.

I can assure you that I am going to include in my agenda today to get more familiar with Descartes Square since I think it can be something valuable I can add to my madness in looking at things differently.

Good to see you again, my friend. Looking forward to what you think as always.

Pearce