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How We Decide

By Johan Lehrer

The horse and charioteer. The emotional and the rational. Everyday we battle against these portions of our brain to make decisions. Johan Lehrer, journalist and neuroscientist,  dives into why we make the types of decisions we do and how challenging conventional methods of decision making can prevent us from making new mistakes. He describes how valuable the emotional side of our brain is in making decisions because after-all, experience is disguised in the subconscious act of emotional thinking.  And what is experience exactly? Expectation to it’s outcome. This is just the very surface of richly fascinating book that everyone should go out and get.