Title: 4 Ways Your Emotions Can Screw Up Your Decisions | Inc.com
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4 Ways Your Emotions Can Screw Up Your Decisions
Your emotions can easily cloud your judgment.
1. Excitement can cause you to overestimate your chances of success.
2. Anxiety in one area of your life spills over into other areas.
3. Feelings of sadness can cause you to settle.
4. Anger and embarrassment can lead to taking a long shot.
Balance Emotion and Logic
Inc. This Morning

Content: Creating low expectations for yourself can prevent you from reaching your greatest potential. You may decide not to apply for that promotion or you may not negotiate for what you want all because you're feeling down. 4. Anger and embarrassment can lead to taking a long shot. Intense emotions can lead to rash decisions, if you're not careful. Anger and embarrassment may make you particularly vulnerable to high-risk, low pay-off choices. Researchers suspect intense uncomfortable emotions impair self-regulation skills. Of course, when you're feeling really emotional, your risks can become self-destructive. When those big risks don't pay off, your anger and embarrassment are likely to intensify. Balance Emotion and Logic
Emotions certainly play an important role in the decision making process.