Michael Alden's Blog - Posts Tagged "paralysis"

Some of you have heard of this before; it is essentially when someone analyzes something so much that is causes them to become paralyzed through their analysis. They are unable to make a decision. In the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he discusses how we as humans make decisions unconsciously, essentially without even knowing we have made the decision. Our brains analyze the situation so fast that our conscious mind doesn’t even realize it. It’s a great book by the way, and I won’t give away all of the details, but the basics of the book are about how humans make decisions.

I have found that successful people analyze situations, but they don’t let the data inhibit them from actually making a decision.

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