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3 min read Decision-making

You don't have to get stuff right

What if you're not the one making ‘corrections’? What would that mean for you? ↗️

You don't have to get stuff right
Diagram by Giles | Reproduced from some inspiring book I can't recall 😬

I mean, do you know this? As in really know it, deep down?

Because it looks like we do have to get stuff right, doesn’t it? Otherwise there will be ‘bad’ consequences and… (and what? I don’t know. We’ll feel bad or something? Heaven forfend! 😆)

Now I’m not talking about brain surgery here, obviously (although, I’m sure every neurosurgeon could wax lyrical about the shades of grey they have to deal with every day).

I’m talking about day to day decisions. The choices we make. The paths we take.

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You don’t have to get stuff right.

So give yourself permission to be wrong! It’s just not that important.

I’d say 95% of right and wrong is mind- or society-created. There’s no book on a shelf anywhere that says, This Is How You Do It Right.

(The other 5% is probably enshrined into law, and you can do that ‘wrong’ if you like, but there will be fairly well documented consequences.)

I’ve seen this more and more, ploughing my own furrow since leaving medicine, nigh on 25 years ago. The choices made, the paths taken… how on earth am I supposed to say any of those were ‘right’ or ‘wrong’?!