11. 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?

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

*We would like to thank Professor Carolyn M. Youssef of Bellevue University for providing this exercise.