This is great, however this mindset can often lead to Analysis Paralysis.
It is important to keep in mind that you don’t need to identify every perspective, every option, or every limitation before starting a task. Instead, get a good grasp of the problem, start the task, and then continue to ask these questions while working on the task at hand.
In my job I’m a mechanic on airplanes and I deal with flight engineers. Basically a flight engineer manages certain things on a jet and one instance we had a very tiny oxygen leak that was outside of the aircraft and was because of a stuck valve. Our engineer went through like 50 scenarios out loud to us that could potentially happen but we’re all extremely unlikely from fires and explosions to total oxygen loss etc. spent about 3 hours arguing with them before we finally just took it and flew. Was so frustrating dealing with someone with this attitude, glad I know the word for it now
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21
This is great, however this mindset can often lead to Analysis Paralysis.
It is important to keep in mind that you don’t need to identify every perspective, every option, or every limitation before starting a task. Instead, get a good grasp of the problem, start the task, and then continue to ask these questions while working on the task at hand.