Chris Williamson talks with coach Joe Hudson about how to make better decisions and why indecision persists. Hudson separates unconscious choices from deliberate decisions and covers fear, identity, principles, and self-abandonment.
Hudson's core claim is that decisions are emotional, citing Descartes' Error: logic only forecasts feelings. Fear narrows thinking to binary options and creates a false end. His fixes: feel the feared consequence (he and his wife "mourn the marriage"), live by a few tested principles, and treat everything as an iteration. He pays a barber $2,000 for 50 rejections. Making many decisions beats getting each right, and resentment signals self-abandonment. Other topics: audience and criticism capture, and big transformations as growth opportunities.