More opportunity creates a greater need for discrimination, not less.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

It is tempting to think that more options make life easier, and mostly they make judgment more necessary. When everything is available, nothing is filtered for you, and the burden of deciding what deserves your finite life falls entirely on you. Abundance raises the requirement for discrimination rather than lowering it.

Develop a few explicit criteria for what you take on. Write them down. Having a filter is what makes a wide field of options usable rather than paralysing.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How do you decide which opportunities are worth your time?

MORE IN CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.