'Predicting the future.'

[Guest guest]

Self-doubt and decision making used to

be among most the most energy-draining

and arduous activity that I used to

engage in. Self-doubt came in form of

" am I doing the right thing? " , " Should

I be doing something else? " , " Should I

be somewhere else? " ... " Should I say

something else? " .

 

It also came in form

of " Will my present action please my

boos? " , " Will my present action please

my wife? " , " Will my present action make

me more money? " ... " Will my present

action make my kids smarter and more

successful? " ... " Will my present action

impress the people I want to

impress? " .

 

 

These questions and doubts used to

drain me of energy and used to make me

strained and tired as I realized

that I didn't really know the answer.

Relying on 'expert's opinion' too

rarely worked. Pretending that I did

know the answer and forcing myself to

believe that what I thought was really

the " correct " and " more profitable "

.... simply made me more stubborn,

rigid and closed to new ideas. Further,

in spite of my forced beliefs, many

times my " most profitable " ideas didn't

prove to be the most profitable ones

in reality. And, in spite of all my

tricks and my forced beliefs results largely

remained uncertain, unknown and out of

my total control.

 

 

So much of my action and pretty much all

decisions used to be based on my ability to

'predict' the future but, I realized 'predicting'

the future was a very stressful, error-prone

and often wasteful thing to do. This realization

became even more obvious when I saw many

life-long 'experts' too fail in 'predicting'

the future more often than not!