Indecision and delays are the parents of failure -George Canning
This is not Quiet People Part 2 as you could probably tell lol. I'll get to that when I get to it -_- Today's blog is about decision making.
tl;dr: A wrong decision now is better than a right decision later.
Too often I think people waver over things that they shouldn't be wavering over. Just make a decision. It's not hard. At the lowest level, indecision may be making a decision about what to eat, or trying to decide if an answer is A or C on a test. This is in my eyes the lowest level of indecision, and indecision annoys me. I like to think I'm decisive, but maybe some of you who know me well think different. I make decisions quickly and I don't like to deliberate too long on things. If I don't know an answer on a test, I won't sit there weighing the odds of this one or that one, I'll pick the most likely looking choice and come back to it at the end if I have time. I'd rather move on to questions I can definitively answer than to spend time on something I'm not sure I'm going to get right.
I think it comes down to this question: Is it better to make a wrong decision now, or a right decision later? In my opinion, it's better to make a wrong decision now. I'll give an example in the context that I understand most: warfare. It is infinitely better to attack and lose your whole army and take some of the enemy with you, than to be caught in the middle of making a decision, and lose your whole army without the enemy taking a single casualty. In this case, attacking was the "wrong" decision, and retreat was the "right" decision. But that "wrong" decision was better because it was made immediately, as opposed to the "right" decision that was made too late. It was better because although you lost your whole army, you still managed to take out some of the enemy and weaken them for a future battle. The "right" decision was actually wrong in this case because although it may have been the logically correct decision to retreat, you took so long to get the that conclusion that you sacrificed time in favor of a strategical advantage that you didn't get to exploit. This kind of indecision kills.
In the case of the multiple choice test, the wrong decision is just the wrong decision lol. You're gonna get it wrong whether you make it sooner or later. But I think it could be the same case, especially since most tests are timed. If you take too long to decide on the "right" answer, you sacrifice time for a couple of points that may not help you in the long run. Although in my opinion, they give us waaaay too much time for most tests nowadays. BUT I think it's better to get 3 questions answered in 5 minutes and get 2 wrong and 1 right than to spend the same amount of time on 1 question and get it right for sure and get the other 2 wrong for not answering at all.
This is not Quiet People Part 2 as you could probably tell lol. I'll get to that when I get to it -_- Today's blog is about decision making.
tl;dr: A wrong decision now is better than a right decision later.
Too often I think people waver over things that they shouldn't be wavering over. Just make a decision. It's not hard. At the lowest level, indecision may be making a decision about what to eat, or trying to decide if an answer is A or C on a test. This is in my eyes the lowest level of indecision, and indecision annoys me. I like to think I'm decisive, but maybe some of you who know me well think different. I make decisions quickly and I don't like to deliberate too long on things. If I don't know an answer on a test, I won't sit there weighing the odds of this one or that one, I'll pick the most likely looking choice and come back to it at the end if I have time. I'd rather move on to questions I can definitively answer than to spend time on something I'm not sure I'm going to get right.
I think it comes down to this question: Is it better to make a wrong decision now, or a right decision later? In my opinion, it's better to make a wrong decision now. I'll give an example in the context that I understand most: warfare. It is infinitely better to attack and lose your whole army and take some of the enemy with you, than to be caught in the middle of making a decision, and lose your whole army without the enemy taking a single casualty. In this case, attacking was the "wrong" decision, and retreat was the "right" decision. But that "wrong" decision was better because it was made immediately, as opposed to the "right" decision that was made too late. It was better because although you lost your whole army, you still managed to take out some of the enemy and weaken them for a future battle. The "right" decision was actually wrong in this case because although it may have been the logically correct decision to retreat, you took so long to get the that conclusion that you sacrificed time in favor of a strategical advantage that you didn't get to exploit. This kind of indecision kills.
In the case of the multiple choice test, the wrong decision is just the wrong decision lol. You're gonna get it wrong whether you make it sooner or later. But I think it could be the same case, especially since most tests are timed. If you take too long to decide on the "right" answer, you sacrifice time for a couple of points that may not help you in the long run. Although in my opinion, they give us waaaay too much time for most tests nowadays. BUT I think it's better to get 3 questions answered in 5 minutes and get 2 wrong and 1 right than to spend the same amount of time on 1 question and get it right for sure and get the other 2 wrong for not answering at all.
