Rules of Thinking, The

RULE 38

Don’t indulge decision making¹³

Sometimes, organising gets seriously heavy-duty. Perhaps you’ve got a big house move to orchestrate, or there’s a huge product launch at work, or you’re planning a wedding. There will be literally countless decisions you have to make. There’s the big stuff: should we hire in a removal company or do it ourselves, what date should we hold the launch, how many guests should we invite? And it goes right through to the small stuff: do we need to keep this chipped mug, what’s the best font for the name badges, would Aunt Eliza like to be seated next to Louise?

You can spend ages agonising over every one of them, researching them, discussing them, listing their pros and cons, considering all the options. This ...