Transforming Uncertainty into Decision-Making: A Mental Superhighway

When we are uncomfortable in situations, when we are new to a position, new to making a decision, new to a job, a company, a role that superhighway hasn't formed yet. So sometimes we take more pauses. Because in those moments, if you think about our brain as a road, and we stay with that analogy when we're trying new things, it's like walking over grass. And you know when you're taking that walk with your dog or you're in a new city, and you see a path that's starting to form where the dirt is starting to take over the grass because so many people have walked down that path.

That's how our brain works. So we. We struggle through it. We start to crack open those seeds, those nuggets of decision making, those ideas, those concepts, because we just haven't had enough of a challenge yet to work our way through. And then eventually we've done this pattern, this repetition so much that it starts to become second nature, and we lay down concrete, and then eventually it becomes third nature for us or fourth nature for us. And it's the superhighway in our brain where we don't even have to think, because past experiences have gotten us to where we are today.

And we remember really fast, and we decide and react and go. I find that we have the greatest opportunity for us to stretch our abilities when we are.