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Better Decision Making: How to Balance Logic and Emotion

Most of us think we’re making smart, rational choices in our every day life.  At least I thought I was, until I finished ready Dan Ariely’s book “Predictably Irrational.”  Ariely is a behavioral economist from MIT who overturns the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.
It turns out that our emotions play just as strong a role in decision making as logic.  As I think about this, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Emotions keep us human.  Of course going overboard in either direction can create problems.  For example,

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