This is the first of a series I would like to do called "Thinking in Public."
When something in your life is uncomfortable, uncertain, tense, or unresolved, your brain wants that feeling to stop.
Not later. Now.
So when you make a decision and that uncomfortable feeling goes away, your brain interprets that as: “Good decision. Problem solved.”
But the uncomfortable feeling going away does not necessarily mean the problem is solved. It only means the uncertainty or pressure ended.
Relief means the pressure has stopped Resolution means the problem is actually solved
Those are very different things, but they can feel the same in the moment.
So then, is making a decision a solution? Or is the question that we need an answer to really right to lead to a resolution? Are we making decisions in our job, life, business that, overtime, lead to a positive net effect or are we just avoiding the discomfort of the right question?