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Re: by nostrademons on Saturday September 12, 2015 @10:57PM (#10210200)
This is analysis paralysis. It's not a mental deficiency, but rather an anti-pattern usually brought on by insecurity and lack of knowledge about which decisions are actually important:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

The way out of it is just to pick something and see how far it takes you, accepting that you may have to backtrack and redo stuff in the future. There's this myth that experts got that way through good decisions; no, usually experts got that way because they made a lot of bad decisions really quickly and dealt with the consequences, and so now they know not to make them again.

Re: by kawera on Sunday September 13, 2015 @01:45AM (#10210475)
Exactly. A quote I read recently: "Successful people are those that make mistakes when nobody is looking"