Simone Stolzoff

And the second is to keep rowing.

And I think the keep rowing part is the key.

That is the way that we are able to navigate uncertainty, just focusing on the next right action and taking one step at a time.

Yeah, that's the crux of the fear, right?

It's that you're going to go in the wrong direction and you're going to waste your time.

There's going to be a huge opportunity cost.

One, I think any decision has some sort of risk baked into it.

And the moment before you make a decision, all possibilities are still open to you.

And then the minute you decide to go in a direction, you have to sort of foreclose all of those possibilities.

And that can feel like a loss.

You don't know necessarily the benefits of the direction you've chosen.

You just know all the things that you haven't chosen.

And that's concrete compared to something that is like a little bit more abstract.

But I think we often discount our own ability to course correct.

You know, there's lots of cliches about this.

You can say, like, there is no right decision, only the ability to make a decision right.

Or you can say you can go in one direction and you either get a...

lesson or you get confidence that you've chosen the right path.

I teach career design and one of the things that I often try to help my students do is to make a decision in a direction, even if they know it's the wrong direction or they think that it might not be right for them right now, because that will give them information.

And then, especially if it's a two-way door decision, a decision that isn't too hard to undo, knowing that that is the wrong path for you can help you get closer to the right path eventually.