you shouldn't always aim to make "good" decisions
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in daily life, people tend to underestimate the size of the space of possible decisions they could make.
we think our possible timelines look something like this:
when in reality, it's much closer to this:
why does this matter? sure, there's essentially an infinite number of different timelines that you could exist in by doing something different in the present, but it's not like most of that space contains good outcomes, right?
in my experience, explicitly aiming to explore a larger proportion of the decision space available to you (while continuing to take into account the risks involved) not only makes your life far more interesting and enjoyable, but opens up doors you never even thought existed.
if you always focus on trying to make the best, most rational decisions in your life, you are limiting yourself to a tunnel-vision version of your future and you won't even realize what you're missing out on.
so, stop over-optimizing and start living.
pro life tip: warm up to making really bad decisions by making lesser bad decisions