Ethan Khoza (YouTube) teaches a simple decision-making rule for basketball: aim to make the right decision ~80% of the time and accept that ~20% will be wrong. He emphasizes making quick decisions, avoiding perfectionism, and using repetition to increase situations where quick choices create advantages—resulting in more confidence, less hesitation, and reduced overthinking.
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Understand the 8020 principle. All that that means is that our goal is to make the right decision 80% of the time and understand the fact that 20% of the time you're going to make the wrong choice. There's really no getting around it. No matter how good of a player you are, 20% of the time you're going to make the wrong choice. So players get so, so caught up in, I got to do the right thing every single time. I got to be perfect every single time. So much more important that you do something quickly and live with the fact that, hey, I only need to be right. Like, 80% of the time, there's going to be 20% where I make a quick decision and it's the wrong one. And when you don't hold yourself to a standard of perfection, it allows you to, again, play so much with so much more freedom, so much more confidence, way less overthinking, way less hesitation, because you're okay with the fact that, hey, sometimes I'm going to get it wrong because everybody gets it wrong. But I know that when I play quick, more times than not, I'm going to create a situation that's advantageous for me as I do it more and more.