Select a personal decision that you are currently making or that you will need to make soon. It might be picking a major, buying a car, renting an apartment, choosing a job, or something else. Now apply the rational decision-making process to it by identifying criteria and goals, assigning weights to the criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, ranking the alternatives, and making a decision. Next, compare the outcome of this decision with the outcome you would have reached by following a more intuitive or emotional process.

Are the outcomes different after comparing them?

Which process do you feel led you to the best decision? Why?

How comfortable or uncomfortable are you in making risky decisions?