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Tonight's talk is on being at the crossroads in the sense of making major life decisions?

How do we go about making them and what are some of the unconscious or conscious tendencies that lead to indecision,

stalling, procrastination, being completely stuck, to make big choices or to feel uncertain

constantly about important choices that we are addressing.

Address this talk I'm going to unpack a little bit of some of the current theories about how we make decisions,

focusing on three very, very important figures

in decision theory or how we make choices.

And that will lead us into some observations

and then some strategies for making when we're faced with big decisions to make.

Starting off, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahnman, a famous psychologist and even more so behavioral economist, is one of the most influential

figures in behavioral psychology and he's most famous for his observations

on how we make choices in life.

And he proposed what is certainly one of the most commonly discussed theories,

which is the two systems of thinking, or as he put it in his book,

thinking fast and slow. So thinking fast or fast processing is what's known as what he called system one.

Most of us refer to system one as intuition. Intuition being automatic, unconscious, gut feelings prone to personal biases.

They are used actually in 98% of, that was his, yes, I I mean who knows how many really but 98% of day-to-day

decisions intuition is what's known as bottom up processing. It employs circuits from the midbrain, the

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