
Expansive vs. Contracted: How Our Body Makes Decisions

In the moment, making a decision often feels bigger than it is. We wanna avoid making the wrong one.
So we dwell on them. Trapped in the limbo what if’s, we analyze, compare, and weight our options. Completely forgetting that most “bad decisions” are either easy to fix (sell, throw away, give up, try again) or easy to live with, because they’re not
... See moreThe study revealed two striking results. First, traders with greater sensitivity to the inner life of their bodies had made significantly more money in the previous year. Second, the more years a trader had been working, the greater his interoception, as though the trading floor were selecting for that trait. Coates’s research demonstrates that wha
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