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1 – Break the Decision Paralysis.

1 – Break the Decision Paralysis.

You can’t approach essentialism if you don’t understand the decision paralysis first.

As always, you will fight better if you know your enemy’s weak points. And if you look at the graphic of the cycle, there are a lot of weak points where you can break the cycle. 

However, there’s a strategy that helped me more than anything else – time-bounding.

When I have to make a decision, I define a time block of a maximum of two days. By doing that, I still have time to research the alternatives. But I reduce the time for overthinking and second thoughts.

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