053 - How We Make Decisions
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk about our decision points in life and the role emotions play in our ability to make quality decisions. Throw away that pros and cons list because you are now listening to Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.
You Will Hear:
- The role of emotions on decision making
- How to balance our logic with our emotions
- What happened to Elliott
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Resources:
Emotions, Decision Making, and Procrastination
psychologytoday.com/blog/science-and-sensibility/201003/emotions-decision-making-and-procrastination
The Neuroscience of Decision Making Explained in 30 Seconds
wired.com/2014/03/neuroscience-decision-making-explained-30-seconds/
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we talk about our decision points in life and the role that emotions play in our ability to make quality decisions. |
| 0:08.5 | Throw away that pros and cons list because you are now listening to Tiny a step next to you. |
| 0:25.0 | Today's song is we all fall down by A track featuring Jamie Liddell and |
| 0:32.0 | remixed by Royalty. |
| 0:33.7 | All right, here's the thing. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm a big sucker for all things drumline, dubstep, and melodic. |
| 0:40.0 | So this song is basically the greatest thing on the planet to me right now. |
| 0:44.6 | Enjoy the song and let's jump into the show. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps Big Changes, where I share simple research-backed strategies |
| 1:09.5 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and we all fall down just like the |
| 1:17.6 | song says. We all procrastinate and make emotional decisions that move us away from the goals we want. The key is to forgive |
| 1:25.2 | ourselves when we do and try again. This is advice I personally need to follow, but with |
| 1:31.6 | this episode I wanted to explore this phenomenon. Why is it |
| 1:35.8 | that we can logically know what we need to do but still choose to do the opposite? |
| 1:40.8 | It frankly doesn't make any sense. Now I've mentioned in past episode that this comes |
| 1:46.0 | down chiefly to the fact that we are not logical creatures. We're emotional. Well, let's take that a little bit further. |
| 1:53.4 | Let's explore the double agenda dilemma. |
| 1:56.6 | In an article titled Emotions, Decision Making, and Procrastination |
| 2:01.8 | published on Psychology today today Bill Nous writes quote the |
| 2:06.5 | double agenda dilemma is a conflict between stated and unstated agendas your |
| 2:11.8 | stated agenda is to start, work on, and wrap up the market |
| 2:15.4 | analysis. Even though you dislike the process, you want the results. But you also |
| 2:20.0 | have another agenda. Avoid hassle and get a quick reward by dodging the |
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