The Overrated Fear of Making Decisions

You are probably thinking of a decision you need to make in the next few hours. The potential outcome might make you feel like it’s a…

You are probably thinking of a decision you need to make in the next few hours. The potential outcome might make you feel like it’s a life-and-death situation. We all have that feeling at some point, that we’re dealing with a bomb about to go off. We feel stressed out about the prospect of cutting the wrong cable. Maybe it’s because we are risk averse both physically and emotionally. Whatever the reason, in most cases that fear is overrated. I learned with time that there’s really no such thing as right or wrong decisions. How we implement a particular decision plays a more important role than the decision itself.

Conviction matters the most

When something goes wrong, it’s easy to blame it on a particular decision. It’s like judging the score of a Sunday football game after reading Monday’s news. Every time we’re about to make a decision, the outcome feels uncertain. And that’s simply because we don’t control the future, so why stress out about something that doesn’t entirely depend on …