Summarizing Heuristics: Personal Narrative

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After reading this week’s topic, I realized that many of my decision reasoning are more on temporizing heuristic. A decision has been made that a given option is good enough for now . Like I said with my reply to Melissa’s post, I can relate with her living situation because I was once having that problem.
Another temporizing heuristic that I currently experiencing is my husband car. Couple years ago, when I decided to go back to school to further my education, my husband decided to get rid of his truck and bought an old Volkswagen car to eliminate extra expenses. We reasoned out that for the meantime, the car option is good enough temporarily while I am at school. Well, it was working for the first one year until it starts leaking oil

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