it can feel overly rational and nerdy but i think it could be an effective way to overcome indecision
you need to be careful to be honest and validate all of your feelings, or you’ll reach “rational” conclusions that are wrong for you
(if they were truly rational/reasonable they would be right for you, it’s not reasonable to invalidate or ignore your feelings)
best way to do this may be ala Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: make up some numbers, do calculations, throw it away and do what feels right (also reminds me of visakanv on planning)
One version of the process was to tally hypotheses and list out evidence, make up all the numbers, do the calculation, and then throw out the final answer and go with your brain’s gut feeling after you’d forced it to really weigh everything. – HPMOR
Plans are worthless, planning is priceless. Spend a day making elaborate plans and then disregard them completely to make whatever you think is most compelling. Repeat monthly or quarterly
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 30, 2020