 So if I were to ask you a really quick question, true or false? Reasoning and decision making can be divorced from emotions and in doing so, people make better decisions. You've probably been told that a lot, right? You know, keep a cool head or, you know, go and breathe for a while, think about things. The idea though is a little bit crazy because physiologically speaking, it's actually impossible for that to happen. We know that emotions are critical to decision making and all new perception is going to pass through these filters of emotional memories before they are processed at a cognitive level.