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Stop Allowing Your Emotions To Influence Your Decisions
How to improve your analytical approach to decision-making.
Emotion is a pulsating part of human nature. From choosing a favorite sibling to making billion-dollar business decisions, emotions influence virtually everything about us. Although its influence in certain decisions is trivial, allowing it to sway more impactful decisions can be disastrous.
Amongst hundreds of thousands (to millions) of Earth’s most intelligent inhabitant, I’ve been immensely curious about how emotions compromise our decision-making process by overriding our logical reasoning. This curiosity was kindled a couple of years ago when I learned that most people’s decisions are emotionally triggered and not logical. However, they can go to any length to logically justify their emotion-based decisions after making them.
During my recent research on this mentally thumping topic, I came across a study that explains the neuroscience behind emotion-based decision making.
Before I jump into the approach to making decisions analytically, I’ll briefly describe the study on how emotion combines with other factors — like money and incentives — to influence our decisions.
