Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Insights from Spiritual Philosophers and Psychological Studies

6 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Speaker Vishen Lakhiani connects a long-standing spiritual-philosopher prescription—to decisively choose and commit—with empirical psychology. He cites (informally) a study comparing car buyers who researched for a month versus those who chose within an hour and reports that the fast-deciding buyers were happier with their car one year later. The speaker’s takeaway: avoid overthinking; make a decision and stick to it.

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The idea that all these great spiritual philosophers are saying is make a freaking decision and stick to it. You don't have to worry if it is the best decision. There's also a study on this. So they wanted to see which type of person is happier with the choice of car they buy. The person who spends a month researching all the options or the person who actually buys a car and makes a decision in one hour. It turns out the person who makes the one hour decision is. Is happier with their car one year out. You don't have to overthink this. Make a decision.