Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

— Samuel Butler

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

You will never have enough information, and you have to decide anyway. Every real choice about a job, a person or a move gets made with a fraction of what certainty would require, and waiting for the rest is itself a decision with consequences. The skill is not certainty but judging when you have enough to act on.

Notice where you are gathering data as a way of not choosing. Set a point at which you will decide with whatever you have by then. Being wrong occasionally is the cost of moving, and it is usually cheaper than the delay.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which big decision did you make on partial information?

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