Why it’s so hard to make decisions

Marc Smith
5 min readJul 1, 2019

I’m a ditherer. Honestly, I find decision making an incredibly arduous task. It makes little difference whether the decision I need to make is insignificant or momentous; even when there are only two options available I’m just as likely to dither, engaging in some rudimentary cost-benefit analysis before redundantly going over the choices again and still failing to decide. I’m getting better at it, however, first because I’ve…

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Marc Smith

Chartered Psychologist, author, learning scientist, lover of literature and libraries; accidental poet. https://linktr.ee/marc1857