It's time for some housekeeping of sorts. I spent some weekends (and other times) in mid-July writing blog post content that appeared on my blogs during my July 25 - August 10 vacation. Because I had hardly any computer access during my vacation, I wasn't able to add any up-to-date content (save for the mobile phone posts here and there). Because of this, I've accumulated a backlog of items that I want to write about, but haven't written about yet. Expect to see these over the coming days, and perhaps weeks.
To kick this off, I'm going back to
a July 21 post by Brian "Bex" Huff entitled "How to Make a Decision." His basic points can be summarized as follows (although I encourage you to read
the entire post):
- The emotional part of our brains is more developed than the rational part.
- Because of this, emotional decisions can be made more quickly than rational decisions.
- Despite this quick decision-making capability, emotional decisions may not use all relevant data (for reasons that Huff explains in the post).
Huff then states that "[t]he key is to know how to engage the rational mind, and how to engage the emotional mind." The remainder of the post explains when to use a rational decision-making method, when to use an emotional decision-making method, and why it is important not to confuse the two.
Please
read his arguments and let me know if they are logical. Or if they feel right.
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