Decision making - head or heart?

[merithyn]

I heard someone say today that people make their biggest (and arguably best) decisions with their heart. That seems like it's probably not so much that way for everyone. So what is it for you guys?

[Martinus]

There are no decisive processes taking place in your heart muscle. 

[Valmy]

Um...generally unless my heart and head are lined up my decisions fail pretty pitifully.  I favor a: holistic decision making process

[Richard Hakluyt]

I try to use both. Herodotus discusses the habits of the Persians and says :

"It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine. "

This always made sense to me, it avoids the Scylla of undue sentimentality and the Charybdis of acting like a dessicated calculating machine.

[derspiess]

Meri left out a certain other organ men use to make decisions.

But I went for the second option.

[fhdz]

I try to use both. Herodotus discusses the habits of the Persians and says :

"It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine. "

This always made sense to me, it avoids the Scylla of undue sentimentality and the Charybdis of acting like a dessicated calculating machine.

This is one of my favorite posts on Languish in a long while.

[Valmy]

Meri left out a certain other organ men use to make decisions.

But I went for the second option.

Yeah but that rarely results in us making our best decisions

[Malthus]

I try to use both. Herodotus discusses the habits of the Persians and says :

"It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine. "

This always made sense to me, it avoids the Scylla of undue sentimentality and the Charybdis of acting like a dessicated calculating machine.

Holy simulpost ... this is what I was going to say, but you preempted me. And said it better to boot. 

"I'm guessing by "head" and "heart" you mean "intellectually versus intuitively/emotionally".

Reminds me of the notion in the Histories of Herodotus that the ancient Persians never made any important decision sober without reconsidering it when drunk - and vice versa. 

Seems good to me.  "

[Valmy]

That clarifies why the Persians have made so few good decisions since converting to Islam.

[garbon]

Spleen!

[Habbaku]

Stomach.  If hungry, eat.  If no hungry, not eat.

[Malthus]

That clarifies why the Persians have made so few good decisions since converting to Islam.

Rumi wants a word with you about that ... 

"Either give me more wine or leave me alone."

[garbon]

Stomach.  If hungry, eat.  If no hungry, not eat.

Oh fuck that noise. My stomach gets fed when I feel like it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

That clarifies why the Persians have made so few good decisions since converting to Islam.

          

[fhdz]

That clarifies why the Persians have made so few good decisions since converting to Islam.

They shoulda had a V8!


(with vodka)