Wednesday the 28th of April. Right now I'm thinking about something that somebody said to me years ago when I just came out from prison.
As a matter of fact it happened to be my probation worker so this is going to be an interesting one to record down. So after having a couple of meetings with this dude he wound up telling me that I suffer from this thing called analysis paralysis. That means, or you know, in his own words, I am practically, I'm actually very intelligent, like, you know, I've got a brain saturated
with ideas, great ideas, given that, but at the same time, saturated with so many ideas that there's very little action behind those ideas, because there are so many options and so many routes to take. The thing about the person that isn't quite intelligent, the person who isn't the smartest person in the room, and I'm not saying that I'm one of the smartest people in the room by any stretch of the means, but the benefit about not being too bright or not being too smart is that the options become very limited and
therefore it becomes very difficult for one person to just stop and think about what they're doing they are just full of actions and so with that being said they just go from one step to the other to the other to the other with little to no interruption that they just plow ahead and usually those are the people that tend to garner the best results they tend to come up with you know they tend to get to places fast faster than the person who overthinks, which is very much me, I guess.
Like at the moment, I'm thinking about how I have often held myself back purely on the basis that I've been overthinking a particular process. And I guess the process that I'm overthinking about right now, if I think about it off the top of my head, is, well, actually there's several processes, there's several things that I'm trying to accomplish. And, you know, but for some reason,
I fall back on this, again, not necessarily theory, but this model that basically breaks down the balance between time, money, and quality. It's one of those things where if you have no time, but you have money. It's something that I'm not quite able to explain, but it's effectively like you know you can have, you know, between time, money and quality, I think you can only have
two of those three. You cannot have it all. So if you have time and you have money, I'm getting this completely, totally, and totally, totally wrong, but effectively it's one of those things where if you want things done quickly and you want things done well, then it's going to cost you money. If you want things to be done on a cheap and you want them to be done within a very small space of time, it's not going to be great quality. And if you want great quality and you don't want to spend a great deal amount of money, it's going to take a heap load of
time. There you go. I think I've said it perfectly. That's exactly how I wanted to say it. And it's one of those things where, it's one of those things where, you know, when I kind of fall back on my analysis paralysis, I think that, you know, my overthinking, I tend to overthink things purely because I am trying to utilize my time to achieve the greatest quality. Like, I don't know exactly what the right answer is, because, you know, the quantity versus quality debate is something that's going to continue to rage on for years. But because I am a quality-based person, I do want my process to have the best quality that
I can put out there, the quality that I'm happy with. And so with that being said, I'm not particularly too beat up about my analysis paralysis. I'm just trying to find the best way to navigate through my journey without being too affected by my often, you know, by my habit of overthinking everything.
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