3-2-1: New Paths, the Danger of Complexity, and Making Fast Decisions - James Clear
In the moment, making a decision often feels bigger than it is. We wanna avoid making the wrong one.
So we dwell on them. Trapped in the limbo what if’s, we analyze, compare, and weight our options. Completely forgetting that most “bad decisions” are either easy to fix (sell, throw away, give up, try again) or easy to live with, because they’re not
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Whenever you can’t decide which path to take pick the one that produces change.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“If you...
1) develop a bias for moving fast
2) consistently ask, “What’s the real goal here and is there a better way to accomplish it?”
... you can accomplish a lot in one life.”
1) develop a bias for moving fast
2) consistently ask, “What’s the real goal here and is there a better way to accomplish it?”
... you can accomplish a lot in one life.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On creating meaning, the remarkable odds of your existence, and life instructions
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions.
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