School teaches you to find the one right answer. The real world has many viable solutions, and the only truly wrong choice is doing nothing. Most people freeze because they expect certainty that doesn't exist.
The real world's very different from school. With school, you have very clear directions and a clear outcome with a clear timeline, and you get a grade immediately. So that's kind of like the reward or feedback loop, right? And sometimes it's pop quiz same day, next day you get the feedback loop, or even you get— you finish the quiz, you go outside, and then you're like, hey, would you answer for 6? And you're like, ah, fuck, I got it wrong, or whatever, right? But the thing is that the world is completely opposite of that. And so the thing is that beginners are paralyzed to make a decision because they assume the real world works like school and only has one right answer. But reality is that there are many right answers with only one wrong answer, which is doing nothing. And that's the answer that most people pick.
