Hi there,
I just finished watching the “Analysis Paralyis” video, and I wanted to share, as Rick suggested, an personal experience with decision making. It is not related to my current project.
Once, when I was studying for my Master at engineering school, I had to chose a semester project. You could come up with your own, but since I did not have an idea for one, I looked at what projects were proposed. There was one project that seemed really interesting to me, which was about animations using blender. I wanted to take that project, but then I started thinking: “oh, but I don’t know how to use blender, and probably they want someone who does”, or “people might say this is not very serious for engineering studens”… and I ended up taking another project (about designing mathematical models) that I didn’t like so much.
Of course, it was not, and not only did I not like this project, but I also did not learn much from it. It was not the fault of the project itself (one person who I worked with on it, made some amazing stuff out of it), but it was just not for me.
So in this case, I let the fear of what (I thought) others might say, and my idea of what was expected from an engineer drive my decision. It was not a good idea, since eventually, I did not learn much, and also I did not bring the best of myself in the project that I ended up doing.