Omar Zenhom argues that fear of failure keeps people stuck in slow decision-making. On low-stakes choices, acting fast with incomplete information beats months of analysis that teaches you nothing. A wrong call you can fix beats no progress at all.
The real reason why your decision-making is slow is because of your fear of failure. A lot of people take a lot of time to make a decision because they're so terrified of being wrong or making the wrong decision. Well, I had to make a decision. If it's wrong, you'll learn quickly and you'll be able to learn from that decision and make a different decision that is going to help you to move closer to your goals. In the meantime, if you took months to make this decision, you learn nothing and you waste a bunch of time. And it just slows you down. And what's the cost of a wrong decision? Is it going to cost me a lot of time and money and energy? Is it going to be a heartache? If not so much, if it's not that bad, then just make a quick decision. It's okay. Uh, it's not the end of the world. You can learn from it.
