By Lydia Vidal. For years, deciding \u00abwell\u00bb, making good decisions, was associated with being rational and leaving out emotions. Today we know that this is a myth: when parts of the brain that process emotion are damaged, people do not become more logical, they become blocked, find it hard to prioritise and get lost in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Far from getting in the way, emotion is essential for decision-making, because without emotion there is no priority. And without priority there is no decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At EEC we work on a simple premise: the conversation<\/a> is the space where we can give voice to both what we think and what we feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Through language, we can express both emotional experience and order thought: \u00abI realise that I am angry and afraid of being wrong\u00bb and \u00abAll in all, looking at the information and the impact, the most coherent thing to do would be...\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When a person can name both - the rational and the emotional - he or she gains clarity, lowers the internal noise and decides from a more complete place. A coaching process creates precisely this kind of space: it legitimises what we feel, orders what we think and helps us to choose decisions that make sense for us and for our reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSelf-awareness: knowing what happens to us when we make decisions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n