How people avoid making serious decisions

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Posted on 05/16/2006 at 11:35:44 AM by Fred Simmons

A serendipitous discovery ripped from another blog's comments section, here's a little psychology course on decision making and how people avoid the process. It offers several gems including this one which I think relates beautifully to our association blog discussion from last week:

Be too prudent: Be over curious long enough to delay the decision. If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over what you are going to decide. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the opportunities, by fearing to make our decision. Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others who depend on you.