Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

Hey, Joe, how are you doing?

I'm good, man. How are you?

Yeah, doing well. You know, I've been thinking that, you know, on the podcast a number of times, I think I've mentioned how we first met, which was that you had been doing a talk in San Francisco called How to Make Good Business Decisions. And yeah, that was something that really caught my eye.

I had ended up moving to the Bay Area from kind of my life overseas doing air sports and base jumping and wing suiting.

And I was on my own personal mission of how to make better decisions because there'd

been a lot of cost and consequence with not making great decisions in our community.

And I really wanted that to be, that was a study that I was really deeply in at the time,

driving me down rabbit holes in neuroscience and consciousness in general.

Yeah.

And so I just realized we've never actually done an episode on how to make decisions. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just realized we've never actually done an episode on how to make decisions.

Yeah. All right. Well, that tickles me to no end. That's actually something I was thinking about

when you said, oh, about decision making. What made me crack up at the beginning was this,

this idea of like, oh, we really haven't done this. And it's such an integral part of the work. So, yeah, I look forward to let's do it. Let's talk about decision making. It's also one of the practical things that people desire. You know, we talk a lot about how to feel your feelings. And people are like, okay, great, what's the point? Yeah, okay. Yeah, good. Then we should

tie those two things in together. Let's do that. Yeah. So as we've, we've talked about the thing

many times on the podcast about how the emotional center is the decision making part of our brain,

that if we remove it, it'll take us a half an hour to decide what color

pen, you know, or whatever it is. Like you might, you'll maintain your intelligence, but you won't

be able to make any decisions. So that's the, that's the quintessential link. The quintessential link is

that we make emotional decisions. We do not make intellectual decisions. What we're doing is we're

using the intellect to help us try to understand how we will feel at the end of the decision.

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