Decide by your values, and split the two phases
Stop weighing every pro and con — that drives an endless hunt for more information. Instead, judge only the options that matter most against your own values. And separate decisions into two phases: generate ideas freely first (divergent), then narrow to one (convergent) — don't do both at once.
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Exhaustive pros-and-cons analysis is exhausting: it leans on the rational mind and an endless quest for ‘enough’ information, and it treats every option as worth evaluating. Using your personal values as a filter collapses the option set fast — you don’t need to weigh all the options, only the few that matter most, against what you actually care about. This sidesteps the information-gathering spiral that makes decisions feel impossible.
The second lever is structural: generating and evaluating at the same time creates overload. Split a decision into two discrete phases — a divergent phase to generate ideas freely, then a separate convergent phase to boil them down to one. Keeping the two apart makes each step manageable instead of trying to invent and judge simultaneously. Together these turn ‘too many options, can’t choose’ into a tractable two-step pass guided by what matters to you.
