T. Harv Eker explains why people get stuck choosing between ideas: fear of picking wrong. His fix is simple. Pick something that appeals to you, commit to trying it, and learn by doing instead of waiting for certainty.
One of the things people struggle with is that they have quite a few ideas and they're not sure which one to choose. And of course, you know, a lot people say, well, what's the issue? The issue is that you don't want to make the wrong decision and screw up, right? So there's actually two parts to the answer to this question. Number one is how do you choose the right idea? And number two is this whole idea of screwing up, right? So the first thing, let's take the second part first. Because the fear of making a mistake is what holds you back from actually choosing not just the good idea or the best idea, but any idea. And so we end up with a lot of people, their whole lives, they got idea after idea and they never do anything. Why? Because what if it's the wrong idea? Nobody buys it. What if it's not successful, Et cetera, et cetera. So the first thing I have to get over is the fear of making the wrong choice. And what I want to say is this. I'm a big believer in the try the coat on philosophy. I used to have in my life literally dozens of ideas constantly as to what business to get into, how to, etc. Etc. And I had a hard time making a decision for 10 years. It wasn't working. And so what I finally decided to do is say, you know what I'm going to choose. Give it the best shot, or make a choice here, something that resonates with me, something I want to do, something I, I feel and hope I'll be good at and, and, and be successful with. And I'm going to try it on. I'm going to take this coat, I'm going to take it from the rack that has hundreds coats, and I'm going to put it on me and see how it feels.
