Holicent
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Just don't do it! You'll make the wrong ones, and you'll keep making them until they are right. There's no way to know it when you start, but eventually it will happen.
The reason everyone knows this isn't because they have had a lot of experience with making decisions; it's because they have had a lot of experience with not making decisions, and those people are very good at figuring out what not to do. They know that one of the most common mistakes is trying to figure out what you should do instead of just doing nothing at all. So most people will tell you: "Don't worry about it."
But this advice doesn't help very much either, because we want our lives to be more than just a series of decisions: we want them to be interesting as well. And even if we were interested in doing nothing at all, that wouldn't give us any more control over our lives than trying to make a decision will give us. The more interesting thing would be just not doing anything at all?
The reason everyone knows this isn't because they have had a lot of experience with making decisions; it's because they have had a lot of experience with not making decisions, and those people are very good at figuring out what not to do. They know that one of the most common mistakes is trying to figure out what you should do instead of just doing nothing at all. So most people will tell you: "Don't worry about it."
But this advice doesn't help very much either, because we want our lives to be more than just a series of decisions: we want them to be interesting as well. And even if we were interested in doing nothing at all, that wouldn't give us any more control over our lives than trying to make a decision will give us. The more interesting thing would be just not doing anything at all?