Decision Theory: A New Way to Improve Your Life

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There are two strategies for coping with stress. One is offloading and the other is taking in less information. We've talked about these different theories today. How would you kind of tie these systems together? Yeah. Another thing that to me feels like it has a lot of promise was decision theory.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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