26 September 2010
Lizard Brain v. Lion Heart
29 Sep 2010 10:57 AM Filed in: Cool Science
A graduate student I know is trying to decide whether to stick with her program or bag it and follow her husband who has managed… in this economy… to score a permanent gig with benefits. She has been asking everyone she knows, and the occasional random stranger, what she should do. This inspired me to think about how we make decisions and why, according to scientific studies, we rarely get it right.
When we make decisions, there is a tug of war between the brain and the heart, between logic and emotion. Some decisions are all brain… leaping out of the way of a speeding truck. Some decisions are all heart… do I pick the red shirt or the blue shirt? Unfortunately for us, most decisions fall in the middle and we have a hard time balancing the needs and wants of the head and the heart especially when we are making a decision that impacts our happiness.
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When we make decisions, there is a tug of war between the brain and the heart, between logic and emotion. Some decisions are all brain… leaping out of the way of a speeding truck. Some decisions are all heart… do I pick the red shirt or the blue shirt? Unfortunately for us, most decisions fall in the middle and we have a hard time balancing the needs and wants of the head and the heart especially when we are making a decision that impacts our happiness.
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