Improve Your Important Life Decisions by Listening to Your Intuitions

Gut feelings can play a major role in decision-making

When our decision is biased by our emotions we call it gut feeling. And this happens to us all the time. I think many of us try to make a rational decision but deep down, they too are emotion-driven.

The argument that I am going to make is that there is no such thing as a purely rational decision when it comes to real-life decisions. Emotions are always there to guide us.

Let’s take an example, suppose someone asks you, “How was your day?” what do you do? Do you start analyzing your day from breakfast up to now and then take an average and tell the result or do you say something like, “It was good” or “Actually, not too great”? Processing your whole day would itself take another day and you don’t want another person to wait such long. Do you?

That’s it, that was the simplest example of how our gut reactions help us make life decisions quickly. You see, pure logic takes a long time to make decisions, and hence gut reaction can help us take a shortcut. It all depends on how well you train your gut reactions. And, in the psychology world, they call these gut reactions as ‘Somatic Markers’.

This has been a really amazing finding in emotion psychology. Most of the scientists who have been studying the human brain believe that these Somatic Markers are stored in the part of the brain called the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex.

Why should we know these scientific terms? Because in this article we are going to see a research project on how does decision-making change when the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex is either healthy or damaged.

In this research, the scientists set up an experiment where participants were made to sit down before four piles of…

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