The One Rule For Freedom From Indecision

Ever wanted a general approach to getting over decision anxiety?

We have to make decisions every day.

But we do not have unlimited time to assign to figuring out what the best choice is to make for each of these decisions. And we have even less time to agonize over if we have made the right choice afterwards.

In attempting to make out the head and tail of any complex circumstances, I think there is a tendency to complicate the process that leads to this anxiety.

Because people may not have a clear grasp on all the aspects, risks, and consequences of a decision, it is easy to become frozen and incapable of execution.

But enough about the problem. How do we begin to solve it?

Here’s the rough answer upfront: create a set of relevant choices you can take and iteratively throw away half until you arrive at a single choice.

So if you have four different choices, break them up into two groups and discard one of the groups, and repeat the process until you have just one decision.

Where is this strategy coming from?

The international team of researchers preface their findings in the following way:

I recommend reading the full context of the article and quote to get a clearer view of the research itself. There’s some really interesting stuff about how this team of people used virtual reality to validate their theories about these animal…

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