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Emily. June 5th, 2009 10:53 PM

Do your emotions influence your decisions?
 
It’s a simple question, really. But, do your emotions influence how you react to specific things, or how you decide on something?

If you have a decision to make, do you block out your emotions and think it through? Do you focus solely on your emotions? Or, do you just make a split decision? How do your emotions influence you?

For me, it’s a bit of both, I tend to need to think things through for a while, not too long, not too little. I listen to both my feelings and my mind, and I may even seek advice on the matter. Occassionally, however, my emotions do cloud my judgement, and I might make the wrong decision, or the right one. Sometimes, my temper gets the better of me, and then bam, there’s a wrong decision. In other cases.. I think things through fully, and find myself in a far better position then I have been.

Yay for a long thread.. XD; tl;dr to the max, amirite?

Her June 5th, 2009 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Emily. (Post 4719590)
It’s a simple question, really. But, do your emotions influence how you react to specific things, or how you decide on something?

If you have a decision to make, do you block out your emotions and think it through? Do you focus solely on your emotions? Or, do you just make a split decision? How do your emotions influence you?

For me, it’s a bit of both, I tend to need to think things through for a while, not too long, not too little. I listen to both my feelings and my mind, and I may even seek advice on the matter. Occassionally, however, my emotions do cloud my judgement, and I might make the wrong decision, or the right one. Sometimes, my temper gets the better of me, and then bam, there’s a wrong decision. In other cases.. I think things through fully, and find myself in a far better position then I have been.

Yay for a long thread.. XD; tl;dr to the max, amirite?
No cuz i luff you

For me, it's always been 'emotions cloud judgement'. It's helped me make some good decisions in the past, but more often than not, I make bad ones.

Signomi June 5th, 2009 10:56 PM

Emotions are the sort of thing that can dilute your thoughts and make you liable to impulse moves that you are likely to regret much later on. In a way it's like being under the influence of your own feelings and in itself that is a delusion. Which is why I try not to let my feelings influence my judgment on various subjects, especially if it's to do with more important and critical situations. During that time I aim to be as logical and informative as I can.

X-626 June 5th, 2009 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Emily. (Post 4719590)
Yay for a long thread.. XD; tl;dr to the max, amirite?

urwrong. It's not too long. :P

It really depends. There have been plenty of times that I've allowed emotions to cloud my judgment. It's nowhere near as bad now, though. They still get in the way, but I try to focus more on the problem/decision itself rather than my emotions. It still fails every so often, though.

Satoshi Ookami June 5th, 2009 11:03 PM

No, I won't let my emotions out

Ho-Oh June 5th, 2009 11:05 PM

I just got told to post here, I have no clue what to say and now I'll be goi--

It depends on the situation, uhh, I've thought more about my decisions lately so I dunno, pupues. @[email protected]

ShinjisLover June 5th, 2009 11:06 PM

Not really. More recently, I've gotten much better with making decisions regardless of my emotions at present. Even though I get angry easily, I never allow my anger to cloud my better judgment, which usually means that I make good decisions. You may not know it, but it's true.

Sublime June 5th, 2009 11:09 PM

I lied. I'm gonna answer this before I sleep XD;
And long threads are the best :O

Anyway, I let emotions cloud my judgment all the time :/ I go against my gut just cause my heart said something different a lot. I try not to focus on the emotional side of a situation, but it's just to hard most of the time. So, I usually let emotions decide; whether I like it, or not.

Alexithymia~ June 5th, 2009 11:44 PM

Sometimes my anger gets the better of me and I make decisions out of spite, but normally I do think things through, and make the right decision, even though it makes me/someone else worse off, because if it's right, then it shouldn't matter, yes? .. snarl.

pokerus34 June 6th, 2009 12:41 AM

It really depends on the situation (as usual... *sigh*)...

But mostly my emotions doesnt linger with my decisions. :)

Vie June 6th, 2009 1:07 AM

A bit of both, too. xD It depends on what I have to decide. But I usually try to block emotions. Thats just the better way. I think.

Ivysaur June 6th, 2009 2:04 AM

I'm very analitical and I rarely act just thinking on my emotions. If I do, then something is going very wrong.

Kazukii June 6th, 2009 2:06 AM

Unfortunatly my emotions do & sometimes can cause bad decisions :S

Aizuke June 6th, 2009 2:30 AM

This would probably be one of my flaws; having my thoughts and decisions clouded by my emotions. Unfortunately I'm a rash person and tend to do things according to my emotions, whether it be good or bad. A lot of the time my decisions aren't the best ones. I guess it would be because I'm sensitive and anything that happens to spark that sensitivity usually gets to me. I try to push people away, because I know I can't think properly when a situation occurs, I tend to say things I don't mean. Now, I don't say anything at all because I know I'll say something I'll regret. I've learnt that from experience, and whenever I do say something, it makes the situation far more worse.

It takes a while to calm me down and get myself in a right state of mind, usually I just want to be left alone. This is one of those things I need to work on with my personality, because I don't want to end up hurting someone who cares for me..

Suki June 6th, 2009 3:08 AM

Yeah, there's times when they do, then there's times when they don't, but I think most of the time, my emotions provoke me to make decisions that aren't actually great; I believe I lack the ability to push my emotions to one side :/ And yeah, it does depend on what situation I am in, but seeing as I am a sensitive person, I generally act on things depending on how I'm feeling. Recently however, I have been trying to change the way I think by thinking something through properly and just trying to think more about how the other person than myself, because it's true that I block out how they are feeling if my emotions are getting the better of me, and this just leads to a mess.

>Feelings< June 6th, 2009 3:39 AM

The decisions I make are always based on both logic and emotions in equal.

If anything is bad while deciding, it would be when you didn't give enough time to it to say that you're content with making it.

A lot of people may not agree with me, but I take my feelings to be just as great of a deciding factor as logic and thorough thinking.
Only a mixture of both can end up being the best thing, but only when it is provided that your feelings are very controlled and doesn't trigger for illogical reasons themselves.

Yeah, it might be confusing how feelings can have a touch of logic in them, but they can, and they do for me.

Neither of the two factors alone would make you happy in the end, but both together do.
Makings a decision based on pure feelings could later result in a worse state, and would make you feel worse, and making a decision based on pure logic could later make you feel sorry in the same way - you just need to think about it deeply.

Vednix June 6th, 2009 3:54 AM

From time to time yes. Most of them are influenced by emotion, but some I have to just make the right decision.

ShadowLeader June 6th, 2009 6:26 AM

sometimes....im more in control of my emotions than most people....

OokamiShipper June 6th, 2009 6:30 AM

Yeah, I think so. Being empathetic always gets to me before I make a decision that affects someone else, but I can't really help it. ^^;

Cheesymitten June 6th, 2009 6:37 AM

Sometimes, but i always know what desicion i want to make at first.
If i let my feelings get in the way, then it's most likely that I like them very much or I hate them very very much :D

Alec_ June 6th, 2009 6:39 AM

Somestimes it does. But sometimes not :3

~Fairytales.

Mitchman June 6th, 2009 6:58 AM

Most of the time. If I am angry something gets damaged or broken. If happy everyone looks at me strangely like wth is up with him today. If I'm sad no one dares mess with me and I get alone time from the parents. Otherwise yeah lol I have no other emotions that influence decisions. Except love. That just paralyzes me and I do anything.

Neiko Star June 6th, 2009 9:45 AM

No. When I'm with people I always have my 'nice' personality turned on. So even if I want to kill the person in front of me, I won't say anything. I don't always think stuff through either. It's just...be nice. XD

Lana. June 6th, 2009 1:19 PM

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Originally Posted by >Feelings< (Post 4720126)
The decisions I make are always based on both logic and emotions in equal.

If anything is bad while deciding, it would be when you didn't give enough time to it to say that you're content with making it.

A lot of people may not agree with me, but I take my feelings to be just as great of a deciding factor as logic and thorough thinking.
Only a mixture of both can end up being the best thing, but only when it is provided that your feelings are very controlled and doesn't trigger for illogical reasons themselves.

Yeah, it might be confusing how feelings can have a touch of logic in them, but they can, and they do for me.

Neither of the two factors alone would make you happy in the end, but both together do.
Makings a decision based on pure feelings could later result in a worse state, and would make you feel worse, and making a decision based on pure logic could later make you feel sorry in the same way - you just need to think about it deeply.

^This. I rely on logic, emotions, my gut, integrity... all of it. If you rely on one, you're going to screw something up. Or at least I would, anyways. I may be selfish at times, but then I also know when sacrifices have to be made.

THIRTY-SIX June 6th, 2009 1:27 PM

Depends on the situation at hand, therefore not really.


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