Forward movement with optionality gives the best futures
Summary
- Be open to options, and be open to trying new things
Details
- Ideally, you want to try a new thing that gives you the option to undo, or change direction later
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more useful approach is to seek out and embrace optionality. If we can try something, experience something, or launch something that comes with an undo button, that path is far more resilient than irrevocable decisions that can’t be undone.
If there’s an easy and productive way to backtrack, the best response might be, “Sure, why not?”
Forward motion with optionality doesn’t involve stalling when commitments are the better path to make a change happen. Instead, when all other things are similar, choosing the option that gives us more options as the world unfolds is the better choice.
Related
- Risk is half the process of moving forward - Richard Saul Wurman
- Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards - Søren Kierkegaard
- Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff - Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life - Matt Paxton
- Preserve optionality even if it makes you look stupid in the short term
- House loan or mortgage narrows options for the next 30 years
- Organization is needed when there are many things. Minimalism may be a better option.