Ramit Sethi and a guest discuss the stress of committing to plans you're already doubting. Speaker A describes announcing a party they're not sure about, then feeling trapped into throwing it anyway. The real pain isn't the event itself, it's doing something while uncertain.
I love planning parties. Everything was kind of already planned, and I already told everyone about it, and I didn't want to backtrack. But I think it ended with us both feeling not great and me thinking, okay, well, we're still going to do it, because I really want to, and it's important to me, but it's going to be kind of, like, stressful as we do it, because this is looming over us as it maybe not be a good decision.
Isn't that, like, the worst of all?
Yeah. Yeah.
Like, definitely. We're going to do this thing. We're not even sure if we should do it, and we're going to feel bad the entire time.
Exactly. Yeah.
