Annie Duke

And I literally just said, is 50% greater than zero?

And it was like this moment, right?

It was like she got, it released her from the clutches of this, I don't want to make a decision.

What if that new thing doesn't work out?

Because it was just like this total, it was like a revelation.

And she quit the next day.

She was like, oh, oh, I get it, right?

So I think that this is like a really important conceptually to understand, like there is no such thing as not making a decision because you're making a decision to stick with the thing that's already happening.

So once you recognize that, I think you can start thinking about it differently.

Separately, and I would recommend this for your friends,

A lot of times when we go to make a decision, we kind of make it the biggest version of the decision.

And we do that in two ways.

One is we're like, we just, we're moved to a new city and we decide we're going to buy a house instead of rent.

Right?

Like buying a house is a lot more consequential than renting.

So that makes like the bad outcome worse.

kind of bigger, like the possible bad outcome kind of bigger because we sort of committed to something much bigger, right?

That's one thing.

The other thing is we imagine when we go into the decision that we can't stop it, right?

Like we think about that as I'm going to choose this thing and I have to just do this for the rest of my life, which also really increases the stakes.