OVERCOMING OPTION PARALYSIS

Pria Parker on the Fear of Missing Out
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxCambridge-Priya-Parker

• Do NOT: Impediments/obstructions
1. Get It Done Syndrome
1. Productivity without purpose isn’t helpful
2. Why do you do what you’re doing
2. Hedging bets and maintaining optionality
3. Maintenance
1. Takes more energy to create, build, think... but important to do!
4. Prioritize success over mastery
1. Ex: networking vs creating/learning... choose creating/learning
5. Stuck in their heads
• DO
1. Ask what kind of life do I want?
1. Cutlivate ways to ask and listen to the answer
2. Listen to the voice that drives you
2. Accept sub-optimal outcomes
1. Embrace that these may be the result of a choice
2. Ex: choose 1 party over 3, and then be present
3. Say “no” and be ok burning bridges
1. Know your own guiding principle and stick to it
• Howard Therman
1. “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
• Reference:
1. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/08/millennials-paralyzed-by-choice/