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How Your Emotions Influence Your Decisions
Develop a working awareness
- Name what you are deciding.
- Name all the feelings you are experiencing in connection with the decision.
- Identify the root cause of the feelings you are experiencing in connection with your decision.
- Identify the emotions connected to these feelings.
- Process the emotion.
- Consider if you want to make a decision from this emotion or change course.
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Emotions lead to feelings
Being aware of the constant dance between emotions and feelings could improve your decision-making ability.
- Every feeling begins with a stimulus.
- The stimulus leads to an unfelt emotion in the brain.
- Unfelt emotions cause the body to generate responsive hormones.
- The hormones enter the bloodstream and bring about positive or negative feelings.
For example, when we feel threatened (stimuli), the initial label is fear (emotion) and happens unconsciously. Fear results in the production of fight-or-flight feelings (hormones), which helps our bodies to react (feelings).
Focus on the resulting feeling
We need to understand how any particular emotion (root cause) will translate into a feeling (symptom).
The six emotions are broad categories, while the feelings are specific to describe what is going on in our bodies. For instance, disgust (emotion) may result in 'loathing' or 'detestable' feelings.
When you have to make a decision, always track your feeling to the resulting emotion to find the root cause.
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