Advanced Decision Making.

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Advanced Decision Making 2
Please identify a situation in which someone else (in your own life, in the news, or in history)
has been impacted by thinking traps when making a decision.
Decisions of a person is what makes the biggest part of daily life. When person thinks too
much about his or her future is called thinking traps. Every day I wake up and make some
decisions on what I will take for breakfast and whether I will go to work or not. Most of time
those decisions seem to be too small but I have realized they are big decisions (Campbell,
2016). In my work place, I have some co-workers who were laid down when the company was
getting closed thus giving them an opportunity to join other larger companies or joining other
departments in the organization. Thinking traps have made me to fall into emotional reasoning
for the evidence of truth. It also brought a feeling that what am believing at the moment is true
unconditionally and automatically regardless of what evidence.
In what way have historical anchors played a role in the example that you provided, if at all?
The historical anchors gives an advice on better ways when it comes to decision making.
The anchors give some advice factors to consider and ways to follow when making decisions to
avoid regrets.
According to Campbell, Whitehead and Finkelstein, why does the way our brains work lead to
poor decisions?
According to Campbell, Whitehead and Finkelstiein, the way of making any decisions is
determined by our heart. During the process of making decisions, along the way we make
mistakes (Finkelstein, 2015). Our brain trips up leading to poor decisions in our lives. The
reason to this is because in most cases mental work is unconscious making hard time for the