Decisions often require an extra level of awareness than you expect, and taking a beat to reconsider the deeper set of options before deciding sometimes prevents you from going down a bad path.

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• Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones PBPeter Bevelin17 Oct 2007
• Thinking harder about a decision has diminishing returns because reality is inherently unknowable. NNNeel Nanda22 Feb 2022
• Every action a person takes is the output of a reward-against-effort calculation the brain runs, and most of that calculation happens below awareness. MHMasud Husain24 Aug 2026
• Consciousness exists to override a rational decision that cannot be made, substituting an emotional judgement when there is too much conflicting information. NLNick Lane7 Sept 2022
• Resisting the discomfort of not knowing leads people to jump to conclusions or decide before they have enough information. KNKen Norton2 Apr 2025

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