Do you decide using emotions or your brain?

@iskayz (5420)
Philippines
July 20, 2008 10:32am CST
Hi everyone! I have a question for everyone to better know each other here. Are you an emotional person? Do you let your emotions take over your decision makings? In situations that involves too much emotions, do you decide using your emotions or your brain? Please do you share!
6 responses
• Oxford, England
20 Jul 08
I think that when a person uses their 'high profile' emotions (anger, sadness, humour etc), more often than not, they regret it if they decided on something because of those emotions. But, surely it depends upon the importance of the decision, don't you think? In addition, a subtle emotion is a 'hunch', a 'gut feeling' isn't it. Personally, my best ever decisions have been made by listening to those 'hunches'. It is as though we have a private advisor with us.
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@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
21 Jul 08
Yes I agree with you. Usually decisions made by using emotions are the ones poeple have regerets about. When I was younger I always decide by emotions and often times they're regretful. But I try my best to learn lessons from them. Ciao! Thanks for responding!
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
20 Jul 08
We are all human, so emotions plays a very big part in our lives. I am an emotional person, and try really hard not to let emotions overcome me, especially in work-related situations. So I'd delay any decision making, if possible. If not, I'd most probably be going by my heart or than my brain.
@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
21 Jul 08
Have you done that - following your heart rather than your brain? What if by following your heart you've found out that your decision was wrong? What do you do?
• India
20 Jul 08
yes i am an emotional person and i do feel a lot when something gets wrong with me but i have a different character when compared to some other emotional person ... whenever something goes wrong with me i feel like everything is lost but after that i am rock-hearted towards that thing or person so that it never bothers me anymore in my life.
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• India
20 Jul 08
I am an emotional person. But now I realise I should control that because most of the times whatever decisions we take emotionally are proved to be wrong. So it is best to use our brains and judge properly or else just for the sake of emotions we may make some wrong decisions. And when emotional our brains rarely work.
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@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
20 Jul 08
Yes thats definitely true. When we are emotional we tend not to think anymore but just feel but sometimes our feelings aren't right. This happens especially in love problems. Thanks for responding!
@KellyMate (361)
20 Jul 08
i have emotions :)
@chenmeiyi (972)
• China
20 Jul 08
As i was a child ,i am a person whose enmotions take over my ration.whenever i feel sad,i will show my feelings phsically or mentally. But now,i am 19 and i have learned how to control myself and to be mature enough to face those unhappy things.Maybe those emotional people can read somes books about humanity and they will derive some eternal truth from life.
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