Decision making - head or heart?

[fhdz]

I instinctively think rationally, so I don't know where that puts me. 

Delusion Land.

[Admiral Yi]

I can see it.  The dude eats, sleeps, and breathes probabilities.

[Josquius]

I try to make it 100% head, heart of course often creeps in and in practice takes up 25% or occasionally 50%, which is a grave error.

[Razgovory]

I was advised by my doctor to not think at all.  So I try to avoid all thinking.

[fhdz]

I can see it.  The dude eats, sleeps, and breathes probabilities.

He just thinks he's applying all those probabilities in the same way a computer of equivalent processing power might.

He isn't, though

[Phillip V]

My experience is that people have very poor long-term planning/projection, so they need to focus on their head rather than their usually destructive impulses ("heart").

On the flipside, many people (specifically women) are socialized ("head") to ignore or accommodate warning/danger signs/actions of future violence (or failure or accident or  bankruptcy, etc.). They go along with the situation or freeze when they should instead have followed the animal instinct of fight or flight (or scream/report to authorities). Doing nothing much more likely leads to rape and/or death; or stagnation/indecisiveness/cycle of failure in other areas such as career, relationships, choice of restaurant/clothes, etc.

[Sheilbh]

I'm not sure I can think of many times when the two have been in conflict for me.

Yep. We're not rational creatures, we're rationalising.

[Tonitrus]

My decision-making processes are predicated solely upon the application of logic, reason and the scientific method.

And kittens.

[Eddie Teach]

I was advised by my doctor to not think at all.  So I try to avoid all thinking.

Wise man.

[CountDeMoney]

My decision-making processes are predicated solely upon the application of logic, reason and the scientific method.

And kittens.

And kittens.

[derspiess]

I was advised by my doctor to not think at all.  So I try to avoid all thinking.

We don't pay you to think

[PDH]

I don't decide anything.  Ever.

[MadImmortalMan]

I don't decide anything.  Ever.

You still have made a choice.   

[DontSayBanana]

Spleen's the closest option to where the real decisions are made.

[DGuller]

I can see it.  The dude eats, sleeps, and breathes probabilities.

As a matter of fact, right now I am eating steak, drinking lots of wine, and submitting statistical model runs from my brand new remote connection to work computer.    I love my job, and I know I'm very lucky in that way, but why couldn't I love being someone in a far less geekier profession?