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#144 Gary Klein: Insights For Making Better Decisions
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Is There a Part of the Brain Where Emotions Make Decisions?
There's a part of the brain where emotion and decision making come together. Some people who have a lesion in this area can no longer draw on their emotions to make decisions. If you are a strong believer in the idea that emotions cloud our thinking, we can do laser surgery to triangulate different laser beams to create a lesion there. So you will no longer be troubled by emotions where you make decisions. And my challenge is to any of the judgment decision researchers who worry about emotions clapping our decisions, would you have the surgery done? I have yet to find the backer.
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