Ok, so you can’t decide

Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by wintermutestwin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:35PM (#28461948)

Making difficult decisions became so much easier when I realized:

a) that the fact that the decision was difficult meant that either choice had a close likelihood of turning out well. b) that the biggest mistakes I have made tended to lead to my biggest successes.

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by davtbaum on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:32PM (#28464776)

on a) I came to the same realization years ago. The fact that its a hard decision inherently means that either solution can be the right solution

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by loudtieblahblah on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:08PM (#28472736)

i usually have analysis paralysis when the consequences of either decision is really dire. In short... i'm stuck between two bad choices.

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by wintermutestwin on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:22AM (#28501987)

That's exactly why I included realization b) :-)

I should have also added:

c) Sometimes, you perception has limited you to choosing between two choices. Change your perception enough to see that there are always a multitude of choices. You may not want to pick the 3rd+ choice, but knowing that you made your choices freely allows you to own the choice and the outcome.

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by heavenlyblue on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:01AM (#28467741)

Machiavelli said that it is worse to not make any choice at all than to make the wrong choice

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by rufus_foreman on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:14PM (#28487919)

The same thing from Joe Simpson in Touching the Void: "You gotta make decisions. You gotta keep making decisions, even if they’re wrong decisions. If you don’t make decisions, you’re stuffed".

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by fouronnes3 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:10PM (#28463111)

Choosing is the same as not knowing.

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by mym1990 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:27PM (#28463826)

Not choosing is a choice as well, the truth is that there are so many possible timelines but we will only ever experience one. So I would get comfortable with not knowing :)

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Re:Ok, so you can’t decide by staticautomatic on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:36PM (#28465579)

A fair philosophical point.

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