I read the articles of "Keep your head" and from the first page, I had no idea that emotions can also have an effect on our health. The examples given says that even if the doctors say that the person does not have cancer, they are so paranoid and scared that they ignore it and think that they have some problems because their friends or relatives have suffered from cancer. So facts and reality cannot help us make decisions in these cases.
Then the article goes on talking about how the incident of 9/11 effects people's decisions. This is opposite of what happened in Japan with the earthquake and mostly tsunami. I know as a fact that most Japanese people are trained and are used to getting earthquakes from a young age since we get them so often and are strictly trained that when feel the shake we automatically get into action. However, of what happened in Fukushima that was somewhat a wake-up call because we are so used to it and we do not really feel fear as much as other people from other countries. But I think it is biased that Japan gets more attention by the natural disaster than other countries that have suffered. I think this is just because that Japan is more or less in favor or well known than other countries and people feel more sympathy towards them. This is exactly the same as how people tend to pay attention towards the presidential election in US even though it does not have a direct impact on them. They or We care because US tends to be at the top of all countries and plays as a role model or something similar.
Then the article talks about how not only emotions can lead us to wrong decision-making but also past memories and experiences. And those two components do connect because if you have bad experiences of doing something (trauma) then you're more likely to not put yourself in that situation and avoid it as much as you can. So the fear or possibly anger comes in as a source of emotion. So memories and experiences lead to emotions.
As the article talks about trying to change our behaviors and what to do to make better decisions, thought they tell us how to I don't think it will have any or have very little effect on the readers because it is very hard to control emotions. When in a panicking situation everybody just does things to save themselves and get themselves out of it. And we tend to think that in those situations we have limited amount of time, that may be the reason why we make wrong decisions because of lack of thinking and thinking through.
So I think that emotions are very essential for decision making, as reasons listed above I think it really just gets in to the way of us making good and thoughtful decisions. It is very hard to hold back emotions while making decisions especially when you have some connection to the topic of decision-making. And if we keep making decisions based or somewhat based on our emotions we will never learn because of the trauma, memories or past experiences especially when they were bad. We'd keep making the same mistakes continuously.

I don't remember the question you gave us for the other article about language. And it says on the assignment sheet that you gave the questions to us on Sunday but we don't have TOK class on Sundays.

I didn't really say this in class but I think that we have so much choices to choose from but we just think that we only have a limited amount of them. For example, this may sound off- topic but almost everyday I walk up to my closet and say "I don't have anything to wear" when clearly you can see me standing in front of like the whole store of clothes. It's like I'm blind. I"m seeing all those clothes and yet I say "I don't have anything to wear". This is what I think is an simple example of how we ignore the choices and not see all the possible choices right in front of us.
The reason why we say "there's no other choice" is because I think we're scared of choosing things that are outside the box (which aren't completely outside the box or original because this choice may be or is influenced by something or someone) and maybe being unsuccessful or not like you've imagined. Most people want to succeed in life and the choice that's given or the "right" way is so obviously go to school, get good grade, go to good university, get a good job, earn money, family, retirement and death. The earlier generations made these decisions for us and they somewhat made clear of what to do and what not to. We can't make up a total original choice for ourselves because they are someway or another affected by or influenced by others. Like you said in class about everything in the world is a copy, I think this would connect to this. There is no originality, everything is a copy of something. But then I think, "If everything is a copy, then there must be something to copy it from. So where is that or what is that?"

Wow, we can never be original...that is pretty disappointing. So that means that we cannot go the other direction or see things that other people cannot see. This is exactly like the Plato's Allegory of the cave. We are forced to see what everyone sees and we all see the same.

"Happiness is acceptance". I agree with Ash that it depends on the situation and context. Adding on, maybe it also depends on the personality of the person. If you are a positive/ optimistic person you have a the ability or the strength to turn the negatives to positives. For example, getting a 5 or a 6 on a test. You can improve and you know you can do better but..hey I passed. (Maybe this example was too simple). On the other hand, if you are a negative/ pessimistic person you have negatives thoughts, may turn positives to negatives and turn negatives to even more negatives. Using the same example, getting a 5 or a 6 on a test. You can improve and have perfect scores for that class. But wait nobody's perfect which means I can't be perfect. So what's the point working so hard on improving....
When I first saw the quote I instantly thought of the personalities since there are times where acceptance did not bring me happiness or happiness wasn't the cause of acceptance.