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Analysis Paralysis

How many times do we see ourselves grappling with the thought to do something but do not get to it?

Analyzing what to do often gets us paralyzed. All we need is a process of discovery involving the action of doing something for some purpose and then testing if that is what we wanted to do. And yet, we want to figure out what to do in our heads and then never get around to really arriving at that perfect thing to do.

The side effect, however, is huge - It's alright that you want to be a perfectionist when you do something but it makes you experience less. For experience exposure is vital. Getting ourselves to do something rather than waiting until our analysis of what do is complete will likely make us learn from the environment much faster, make us wiser and interaction with the environment will make our time spent well worth it.

Paralyzing ourselves with the thoughts of doing something great rarely comes without being constantly in touch with reality for who it's done for. That requires us to get into action to back up our thinking.

Experience of doing something yields discovery. Discovery leads to creation. Creation leads to be the relevant contribution. Actions provide a mechanism to test the hypothesis of discovery. 

Don't shy away from acting!


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