Do not just sit there and ask yourself what should I do next. Jump in, pick any choice. Just get started. Do something. If it happened to be the wrong choice or a bad idea, you’ll get a sense of that, and then you’ll behave or modify accordingly. Surprise yourself by the fact that you’ve already jumped in. You’ve already began in a new task. Whether that is the wisest pick you could’ve ever made is irrelevant. You don’t have to get an answer before acting, because your brain doesn’t care. It just wants to take action. You are only here to make sure it doesn’t stay for too long without taking that action, not make sure that the first action taken today is the best action ever to be taken or suggested for such a random day. You will understand this when you practice staying still while doing nothing at all. Then anything you do will be considered a good choice, because it means then that you will no longer be sitting still doing nothing with your brain and your body. Even something as passive as listening to music, which you consider to be a non task in and of itself, just something running in the background that doesn’t guarantee or mean that you were productive today. It will seem like a world-class achievement once it’s added to the background if you’ve been through literal nothingness beforehand. You will appreciate it because after doing nothing for too long anything will be considered heaven, even stuff that you don’t describe as taking action, like listening passively to music in the background. The point is: You want to stay in motion. That should precede making the right decision or choice in your hierarchy of well-being values. And staying in motion demands and necessitates that you do not pause for any reason. Not to answer phone calls, not to tell annoying people to shut up, not to get pissed at the barking of your neighbor’s lovely dog, not even to deal with making final decisions about tasks you’re supposed to handle sometime in the future. Not even to take a final stance on whether some TV show is good enough to not drop it and move on to another show. Not to think about your past and your early childhood traumas. Nothing. Even if the thing that you’re attempting to think about is important as hell, still, as long as it qualifies as an interruption of your mental flow state, that flying unchecked, that running carefree, that continuous immersion in the task at hand, then it’s not allowed to present its case right now. Maybe never. Results are what makes a difference in your life. Not what goes inside your head. This is not because money will solve your problems, but happy thoughts and positive mindset won’t. This is because your brain is tired of itself. Yes imagination exercises your brain, but your brain hates producing stuff from the inside instead of absorbing new stuff from the outside. Your brain loves to download stuff into it, and hates to upload stuff from it, because it already knows it. You can’t imagine a machine to be happy because it’s running something for you. Your brain loves novelty. You can’t be less novel than when you ask your brain to talk about or imagine something it already knows. It only enjoys that when you’re super fatigued. When it has no choice. But it doesn’t mean that this is an enjoyable activity for it. It’s draining and it doesn’t enrich your brain or increase your experience. But you’ll say creativity makes you feel good. Yes, because in creativity you do not produce something you already know. You heard me right. I’m making this shit up as we speak. If I knew it, at least I didn’t have it spread apart in full detail the way you find it in whatever piece of content I transform my thoughts into. I discover while I write. In a few milliseconds whatever unique or brilliant thoughts that happened to run in my mind will disappear forever, simply because they will be not new anymore a few seconds later. So my mind will not keep them. If I do not transform these thoughts into their literary equivalent, they’ll be lost forever. But thinking is mostly telling yourself what you already know. If you have something new, then put it in a piece of content. Make it in a pillar piece of content so that it becomes a source for this wisdom for future reference for you before it is for anybody else. If it’s not worth writing, then probably this isn’t something new. You will then be boring yourself shitless by discussing stuff you already know well with ‘yourself’. You realize how pointless that is? Still you need to keep thinking pointlessly and aimlessly until fatigued every now and then, which is why Thought-streaming meditation is a thing I advise you to engage in on a regular basis. If this is not the case at the moment, that is, you do not need to sit down and just talk to yourself until fatigued, or let the thoughts keep running until you’re done, then do not waste your time, energy, momentum, motivation, or enthusiasm on thinking, because if it’s not something that is new or worthy of being written down, then it will be pointless, a colossal waste of your time, and will lead you nowhere. Still our initial topic was about decision making. And the problem with decision making is that you’re stopping yourself from acting, from staying in motion, from jumping in right away, from doing anything, from beginning, because you’re waiting for consent to take place before any of that. You are waiting for your mind to tell you that this is a good idea. This is where the problem lies. You can’t know that this is a good idea without imagining it first and checking with your memory centers, and consulting your collective past experience, and weighing in all other options. You also have to produce a correct answer, or else your decision making centers will learn to not be reliable or aim to be correct as much as humanly possible, which means you’ll be learning to become more stupid, because you’re teaching your mind to honestly work and make valid or reliable outcomes without caring about quality, which means why bother be accurate, or reasonable, which means in order to be more efficient, you’ll have to be less able to reach that kind of reliable, valid, accurate, or good decision making or logical reasoning …etc. That is, less intelligent and careful will make you better and faster at this, because you’re asking for quick decisions that are not necessarily good or of acceptable quality to your standards of reason, wisdom, and intelligence. This is why you fatigue easily because of making many decisions all the time. Although you objectively did nothing new in the external world, your mind became tired before you even began. There’s no way to stay intelligent without making bad decision making something encouraged in the name of being more efficient except if you make decisions only at specific times only: like when you’re putting or removing items on your to-do lists, or scheduling tasks in your calendar. Another method is to not allow yourself to indulge in decision making all day long because it’s a form of internal distraction that could interrupt you just as external noise can interrupt you, make you go angry, drain your energy, or ruin your mood for the day. You can only bypass wasting your time or energy on decision making if you learn to jump in right away and start doing what you want without waiting for the decision making process to give you guilt free clearance first. But there’s another reason – in addition to those many reasons mentioned earlier here – for entirely attempting to bypass the decision making process. Which is delaying receiving reward until you tell me whether this is a good idea to proceed with or not is so incredibly frustrating it makes you become too depressed to act upon that idea or impulse now after you’ve held me hostage for too long until you figure out whether or not this idea is great enough to pay attention to, take it seriously, or should be implemented immediately or delaying it for some time or someday in the future would be even better. It’s like the idea is brilliant at this very specific moment of time. This very millisecond. If you delay us, and that delay makes us spend energy to hold ourselves from acting upon this great idea immediately and also to do the imagination and questioning necessary to produce a decision that is not laughable by any academic or scientific standards, then the same suggestion will no longer make sense, because you are saying yes now, after a little while, when the question was about doing it 2 minutes ago, not now or two minutes in the future, like who says that our readiness and the appeal of the idea or suggestion would stay the same after you’ve changed all those dimensions or factors surrounding putting this idea or suggestion into practice. Who told you that doing this with lesser energy is still a good idea? Who told you that waiting 30 seconds before starting would make you receive the same reward from doing this thing? Who told you that the idea or suggestion not being as fresh as it was the moment it popped up in your head will not change how enthusiastic or motivated you are to do this idea, suggestion, or thing? Who told you that it wouldn’t be insanely easy to do this thing instantly the moment you get the impulse or urge to do it, but not incredibly difficult, challenging, heavy, or boring to do a few milliseconds later on, and with lesser mental energy to begin with, (that amount consumed by the decision making process?) making it like labor that you dread or hate, although it’s the same thing in both cases. What changed about the suggested task or idea? Nothing! What changed about you and your mental or physical state? Perhaps everything. So basically what will happen here is that you wouldn’t be so reckless or irrational. You will still do the right thing, but after you begin anyway, after you start before you’re ready. And then your inhibitory centers will still be in control, because they’re not thrown in jail until further notice. They are instead monitoring every move, every action you take, lurking in the shadows, hiding behind the bushes, ready to attack at any moment they find their help is most welcome, when their contribution would result in making the quality of your work better in every way imaginable. That’s when they become an asset. Otherwise, they’re just playing the adult in the room, preventing you from virtually everything, in the name of not doing anything unless it’s the wisest and most rational thing to do in the world.

Stay in motion. Pick any random item, thing, or task and go for it. Do it before you feel ready, or that it’s the best idea to act upon ever. And if there’s anything wrong, your inhibitory centers will tell you.

You can bypass the frontal lobe decision making process and jump in right away. That still counts as free will and choice, but it is not the neurological decision making process. To successfully induce that loss of inhibition you gotta offer your normal inhibitory centers a distraction. A piece of meat or a bone. They will be controlling you while monitoring what’s going on in that scenario. They didn’t consent from the start, they didn’t give you the green light to go, they didn’t relief you from any sense of guilt by giving you the initial activation energy that fools you into believing oh this is so right, but they sure as hell stayed occupied while shutting up, because they got this and they are also hungry for the reward. They want the change, and they keep laughing at you for being so slow to act. You’re holding yourself back, even your decision making process centers, and they will be happy with the results that will come from this new loss of inhibition policy.

“I engage, and then I see what to do.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

The only instance you’re allowed to exercise your decision making powers to their full potential is while you’re writing a to-do list or scheduling stuff in your calendar.