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Is That Your Final Answer? Controlling Emotion at the Moment of Decision

By CummingsRL on May 27, 2018August 24, 2018

“Is that your final answer?” That famous phrase heard worldwide in different languages on the wildly popular game show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” meant that the time had come to make a final decision. Viewers sweated and felt the knotted stomach of emotional tension in the contestant. In my previous articles on decision-making,

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