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Most people are terrified at making decisions both in their work and personal lives.

Why? That is what we are going to explore here today and how you can stop procrastinating and start making great decisions fast.

There are three psychological factors behind procrastination in decision making.

Number one is existential anxiety. Making a choice equals loss.

Stanford psychologist Irv Yolham writes that major decisions can bring up existential anxiety. We feel this way because choices are like a

many death where we lose a possibility or what our lives or work could have become

with the other choice not taken.

This sensation is uncomfortable as it confronts us with the limitations of our existence and

the irreversible nature of some decisions. This leads us to procrastate. the feel savor. The mind doesn't have to face an immediate death. All possibilities still exist, or so someone thinks. But we know better, right? A non-decision is a decision. And possibilities still die.

You just you don't get to choose which ones.

That is not a good decision.

And that leads us to number two. Fear of regret. We fear making a wrong decision, one that we might

later regret. This fear causes us to delay making decisions in the attempt to avoid this

possibility of remorse, which oddly to me is often more

psychologically distressing to people than the consequences of the decision itself.

Number three, analysis paralysis. The more options we have, the slower we are to make a decision. We suffer paralysis by analysis. And with number one, the existential threat, and number number one the existential threat and number two the fear of

regret hanging over you during this analysis we become completely

paralyzed we don't fight or flee. We simply freeze. From an evolutionary

standpoint, this makes sense. Our ancestors face life or death decisions

regularly.

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