This one little throwaway line from Tim Ferriss completely removes decision anxiety
A lot of people suffer from decision anxiety. One of the worst things you can do is to completely outsource that thinking or to just give up and flip a coin. This simply erodes what little ability you had in the first place.
A better approach?
Next time you are not sure if you want to do something, simply rate how much you want to do the task from 1 to 10. The only catch is you can’t use the number 7. If you would pick 7 for the task, instead decide if it better sits as a 6 or an 8.
The magic of this is that a 6 is barely more than a 5, it's something not worth doing. Yet an 8 is so high that you should probably always take it - unless of course you’re a person dealing with 9’s and 10’s all day! (Lucky you)
If you simply rate things from 1 to 10 but you allow 7, you’ll soon find that 7 is a bit ambiguous, you’re probably only picking things within the 6–8 range as it is, but 7 is the perfect inoffensive choice to be unintentional. Instead of just outright saying this might suck, you say it might be amazing.. and this might will plague you.
I’ve had moments where I’ve broken my phone, in just an annoying enough way that it frustrates me.. But it doesn't hinder…
