I don’t understand why it seems to be impossible for certain people to make a decision. I guess they are afraid of something, and as far as I can see that can only be one of two things; the consequences of the decision or regretting the decision later on.
If you make a decision and you have given it enough thought, and you’ve weighed the options, and examined the possible outcome, then there is nothing for you to worry about; you made a decision based on the available information, and there was no way in hell you could’ve made a better decision. The only way you can come to regret a decision is when you didn’t have enough information to come to the best conclusion, and thus best decision, which is hardly your fault since you did all you could. Either that or you didn’t take a good look at the information presented to you in the first place, in which case you got everything you deserved.
The consequences of a decision are never fully apparent when you make the decision, you can only hypothesize as to what the outcome will be, and if you do that with some clarity, some rational thought and some emotional input, then, again, you have nothing to worry about since you made the right decision at the time.
When you are faced with several options, and those options seem to be identical in benefit and costs, then just bloody take a decision; flip a coin, arrange them alphabetically and take the first one, do whatever. But take a goddamn decision. Facts and information will not change the more you look at it, especially if you’ve examined it to the best of your ability.
I’m convinced people worry just to worry, although I have no clue why they’d do that.
Mulling over things. Constantly re-examining the information presented to you in the vain hope that it will somehow be different the fourty-seventh time you examine it, that it will somehow give you new insights this time. It all comes forth from an inborn fear of responsibility. Responsibility for your actions and it’s consequences.
Shall I have tomato soup or mushroom soup for dinner tonight? Does it really matter? No. Good, I’ll take the first thing that comes into view.
It’s all relative… …to time.
If you’re choosing soup of the day, even if you end up making a bad decision, the regret will be short-lived, as opposed to regret from making a bad, say, career decision.
However… “If you make a decision and you have given it enough thought, and you’ve weighed the options, and examined the possible outcome, then there is nothing for you to worry about; you made a decision based on the available information, and there was no way in hell you could’ve made a better decision”…in the given time. I know that when I feel indecisive, it’s because I either don’t think that I have enough information, or that it’s not the best decision that I can make, I have the ability to do better.
As far as responsibility of actions goes… it’s because you’re conscious of this responsibility that you feel indecisive… Prevention (of bad consequences) is better than cure.
It’s just part of human nature to want to be right all the time, I guess? …maybe I just need to have my head looked at? …no one will ever know.
to decide A major point that you even said yourself is that it is important to conisder the information presented to you carefully so that you don’t regret a decision later. However, you’re right. Once the information has been examined fully, continueing to look at it will do no additional good. Mouls made a good point too, that “Prevention (of bad consequences) is better than cure.”
I chose you Pikachu! Pffft, why bother looking at the info in the first place? That just complicates things, be random!