[in]decision
moments before a decision we stand at the precipice of choice — stumbling on our own hesitation. many of us peak over the horizon in an attempt to project out a future, doing our best to grasp for certainties that protect ourselves from our fear of the unknown. between breaths we tend to hallucinate an enemy — a frontline of assumptive circular references that block us from our momentum carrying the weight of an indecision tax liability: ‘but i’ll have to say goodbye to this life…’ ‘but what if it’s not my purpose…’ ‘but what if they react this way…’ ‘but what if it could be better…’ ‘but what if this happens…’ ‘but what if i don’t like it…’ predicting the future is more fantasy than truth. the act of replacing our projection with experimentation invites the flow of information awaiting our collaboration with curiosity and possibility that exists on the other side. the key to becoming world-class in any field is to practice a specific task for ten thousand hours. – K. Anders Ericsson you don’t need ten thousand hours of decision-making to become more decisive, you just need to make more decisions. the best way to cure indecision, is to be in decision. decisiveness is built with time under tension — over time we increase the speed and precision to act on future information. variety compounded by volume — make more decisions, make more diverse decisions, become more decisive.
indecision
can look like a sequence of ‘buts’ standing in our way. so, it’s time to work our ‘buts’ off.
how do you do that? don’t skip leg day.
decisiveness is a muscle — it’s not stagnant.
it is a function of our own risk tolerance encompassing degrees of impact, inside various contexts — and — our ability to increase our risk tolerance through experimentation, time horizons, future-pacing the downside and avoiding indecisions tax.
this post is part uno of a three part series where we’ll explore the bounds of risk tolerance (part dos) and increasing speed towards decision-making through various frameworks (part trois).
til then…