Had a conversation with someone on my team this week about being…
Had a conversation with someone on my team this week about being impulsive. It’s been sitting with me since.
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Looked back at most of the mistakes I’ve made in business and personally. Almost none came from not knowing enough. They came from not stopping long enough to ask what I actually wanted before I moved.
I’d act first. Build the reasoning after. For years I called that decisiveness. Founders are supposed to move fast, right?
Lately I see it differently. A lot of what I called “moving fast” was avoiding the discomfort of sitting with a hard choice.
@naval has this idea: spend 10-25% of a task’s time just deciding if it’s worth doing at all. Planning a 4 year degree? Spend 6-12 months first asking if that’s really what you want.
What got me is how obvious that sounds and how rarely I actually did it.
Not writing this because I’ve fixed it. I haven’t. Caught myself doing the old thing twice this week.
Just trying to build the habit now. Pause before I commit. Get clear on what I actually want before I pour the hours in.
Small shift. Doesn’t feel natural yet.
Didn’t want to keep making the same mistake for another eight years without naming it.
Still working on it.