We’re often told, “You should sleep on it” before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does “sleeping on it” help your decision-making process?
Conventional wisdom suggests that by “sleeping on it,” we …
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Therefore experts are better at giving the first answer that passes through their mind and do not over-think in their area of expertise. The problem is that a lot of us consider ourselves experts in a field (or maybe wrong considered by others) but few have really knowledge and the brain to process unconscious that info! Sorry, I didn’t sleep on it! (Meaning on my comment)!
very good!
I think so… because whenever I am confronted with so complex decisions, the more I think of it the more unpleasant the result/s is/are, and amazingly when I made an abrupt decision on a very complex situation, the effect had a great benefit for me. At first, I felt confounded because it’s an irony, right? Unbeknownst to my knowledge, until I’ve read this and said to myself… that is why!
Thanks for this, I am enlightened as well as I learned!!!