188. Why are we so indecisive?

The Psychology of your 20s

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Our inability to make decisions is wasting our time, keeping us acting from a place of fear and stuck in a life we don't want! It's also not entirely our fault and often stems from unconscious mechanisms, neuroticism and fears that we haven't recognised. In today's episode we break down:

Why you struggle to make decisions
The consequences of our chronic indecisiveness
Perfection and indecision
Choice overload
A fear of failure
How to overcome your indecisiveness using the 80/20 rule
The 'trusted advisor' method

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Eagleman from the podcast Inner Cosmos, which recently hit the number one science
0:05.4	podcast in America.
0:06.8	I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford, and I've spent my career exploring the three-pound
0:11.6	universe in our heads.
0:13.0	Join me weekly to explore the relationship between your brain and your life
0:17.5	because the more we know about what's running under the hood,
0:21.0	better we can steer our lives.
0:23.4	Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
0:27.0	Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	Captain's Log, Star Date 2024, we're floating somewhere in the Cosmos, but we've lost our map.
0:36.0	Yeah, because you refuse to ask for directions.
0:38.0	It's Space Jem, there are no roads.
0:41.0	Good point, so where are we headed?
0:43.0	Into the unknown, of course.
0:45.0	Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity,
0:50.0	and the human spirit.
0:51.0	With a hint of mischief, one episode at a time.
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0:57.4	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.2	Trust us.
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