Short monologue by Brian Johnson advising that when facing major decisions one should slow down: reduce inputs, increase meditation and self-care (sleep, movement, eating), think rationally about trade-offs, make a decision, take action, and accept the consequences. Emphasizes that indecision often stems from laziness or avoidance rather than lack of strategy.
When we're making big decisions, this is when we slow down, we take a lot of breaths, we eat, we move, we sleep, we focus. I tend to reduce inputs radically during those phases. And so for me, I increase my meditation 20, 30, 40, 50 minutes, and it's like, oh, shoot. That's the clarity that I needed on this facet of. It might not be the whole thing, but then I'm also working very hard and diligently to think about it rationally. So each decision comes with trades, which is why most people don't make decisions. They defer the decision. The problem isn't bad strategy. The problem is the laziness and the unwillingness to do the hard work to craft good strategy. Then you actually might succeed or fail. But as long as you don't make a decision, you're in the beautiful comfort zone of saying, yeah, maybe you can't be hamlets rubbing your hands together, oh, what am I going to do? You need to make a decision. And then you decide, you take action, and then, very importantly, you accept the consequences.
