How to figure anything out

The purpose of this missive is to indoctrinate you with the most universal method to avoid inaction and to look like a child prodigy all at once.

Action laid out the most painfully simple heuristic to break out of a habit or inactivity and powerlessness. That heuristic stands in its own right, and I encourage you to master it as such.

However, it is only one approach to a broader mental disposition and method of action – incremental decision-making.

People freeze when they have to make an important decision because they feel the need to project forward all the way to Y and account for every possible contingency. This is not realistic, and the higher up the ladder you go, the less realistic it gets. It becomes self-torture and ultimately self-annihilation. You ruin your career, your marriage, your health because you’re trying to act on too much in one go. And you can’t.

Understand.

Moonshots are essential. But you will never have all the information and experience to map out the whole way to Y without a hitch. That’s why they are moonshots!

Inaction guarantees that you won’t get there, so you have no other meaningful choice but to act.