When stuck, all you may need is to look at the issue from a different perspective. Change your seat, and the wall might be a door.
A new perspective can only enrich what you already know. This way, your decision might be more balanced than if you only looked at it from one angle.
In electrical engineering, there is this concept of noise, which is any unwanted signal that interferes with the message. The goal is to make your signal so strong that the noise is cancelled out. It is the basis of communication networks.
It turns out that noise, and the need to reduce it is true in many human activities. Managing the signal to noise ratio well allows us to focus on the right information to make good decisions. Although it is tough at times to distinguish between the signal and the noise, it pays off to invest in noise cancellation.
By focusing on the important few, and ignoring the noisy bunch, we can make the investment of our precious time pay off well.
The great scientific experiments are done by keeping every other variable constant, and only varying the concern variable. The human race has made progress since the advent of scientific method, and we certainly owe a lot to the scientific method of discovery.
However, in much of our daily lives, we cannot apply the scientific method. Things are in constant flux, and one does not know with conviction which causes lead to which outcomes. We make reasonable assumptions based on our previous experience and intuition, and act on it.
When pressed in a corner and asked to place a bet on one of multiple futures, it bodes well to remember that whichever choice we make is ultimately only a hunch. And that, sometimes, what appears to be the right choice can yield the wrong results, or vice versa.
Improving our process can help us to reduce the chance of an adverse outcome, and that is why practice is worth it. It allows us to learn and function in a world were all else is not equal.
Sometimes the right thing to do is easy, but it can be hard at times. In those times, it might be worth revisiting the stoic idea of doing what you can, where you are, with what you have.
If you have evaluated available information, and acted on it, you have done what you can. If that decision turns out to be wrong, you have learnt as much as when it turns out to be right. In many instances, you will not even know whether it was right or wrong, and for whom, and that’s ok.
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