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SIMPLIFY ITS DECISIONS
SIMPLIFY ITS DECISIONS
We are asked to make many decisions every day. Rather burger or salad? Rather Android or iPhone? Super hard to find reliable statistics but human beings would take between 227 & 5000 decisions every day!
Various reasons lead us to make a decision, not necessarily whether it is the best for us.Personally, I think too much before you decide and know what I want (this must be related to my astrological sign, Libra).
And yet, I came across a passage from the interview with HQ by comedian Louis CK. that changed completely the way I decide.
“These situations where I can’t make a choice because I’m too busy trying to envision the perfect one—that false perfectionism traps you in this painful ambivalence: If I do this, then that other thing I could have done becomes attractive. But if I go and choose the other one, the same thing happens again. It’s part of our consumer culture. People do this trying to get a DVD player or a service provider, but it also bleeds into big decisions.
So my rule is that if you have someone or something that gets 70 per cent approval, you just do it. ‘Cause here’s what happens. The fact that other options go away immediately brings your choice to 80. Because the pain of deciding is over.
And when you get to 80 per cent, you work. You apply your knowledge, and that gets you to 85 per cent! And the thing itself, especially if it’s a human being, will always reveal itself—100 percent of the time!—to be more than you thought. And that will get you to 90 per cent. After that, you’re stuck at 90, but who the fuck do you think you are, a god? You got to 90 per cent? It’s incredible!”
In summary, Louis CK says that rather than falling into the "decision perfectionism" that pushes you to spend hours to consider whether a choice is right (or not), you just to be on 70% of your decision .
Once the decision is made, you will be on 80% of your decision because the complications choices and opportunities are then completed.
And if you are sure 80% of your decision, it remains for you to apply your knowledge and to work to make that decision to be "good".
In summary: make a decision and make the right decision.
Work, get involved and move on, do not be paralyzed by fear to decide!
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