Jun 30, 2026 ¡ 1 hr 15 min ¡ 13 segments
Ever noticed how the second you feel uncertain, you suddenly want everyoneâs opinion? Weâve both done it, and it can turn one simple choice into a messy tangle of voices, pros and cons, and âhelpfulââŚ
Taz ThorntonHost
Asha ClearwaterHost
The core irony is that The moment we most need clarity is the moment that we tend to be obsessed with asking everybody for direction.
A number of times that's happened and you just get yourself down a rabbit hole and then another rabbit hole and another rabbit hole.
Not that I'm suggesting that our friends, relatives and business contacts are rabbit holes, but you end up more confused than when you started.
I think we've all been there, haven't we, at various stages in our careers, in our businesses, where we've said, help, I'm not sure what direction I need to take.
I know, I'll ask so-and-so, and then I ask somebody else, then I ask somebody else, and suddenly it's like a tangled ball of wool in your head.
When we're stuck over trying to make a choice, the more we overthink it, the more we convince ourselves that we don't know.
if we do pros and cons lists, we'll start somehow managing to put just as many pros and cons on both lists.
And then before you know it, as you just said, you've got either you ask 10 people and get five or six different opinions that you weren't expecting.
And then that makes it worse because you might end up in that scenario where you feel obligated to take the majority advice when it was nothing that you wanted to do in the first place.
I suppose there's that potential for... therefore not giving it your best shot because actually you've kind of gone along with it rather than really feeling into it and being part of it right from the beginning.
So, yeah, for me, from experience, it's been quite challenging when we've done that and put that out to lots of different people.
The core irony is that The moment we most need clarity is the moment that we tend to be obsessed with asking everybody for direction.
A number of times that's happened and you just get yourself down a rabbit hole and then another rabbit hole and another rabbit hole.
Not that I'm suggesting that our friends, relatives and business contacts are rabbit holes, but you end up more confused than when you started.
I think we've all been there, haven't we, at various stages in our careers, in our businesses, where we've said, help, I'm not sure what direction I need to take.
I know, I'll ask so-and-so, and then I ask somebody else, then I ask somebody else, and suddenly it's like a tangled ball of wool in your head.
When we're stuck over trying to make a choice, the more we overthink it, the more we convince ourselves that we don't know.
if we do pros and cons lists, we'll start somehow managing to put just as many pros and cons on both lists.
And then before you know it, as you just said, you've got either you ask 10 people and get five or six different opinions that you weren't expecting.
And then that makes it worse because you might end up in that scenario where you feel obligated to take the majority advice when it was nothing that you wanted to do in the first place.
I suppose there's that potential for... therefore not giving it your best shot because actually you've kind of gone along with it rather than really feeling into it and being part of it right from the beginning.
So, yeah, for me, from experience, it's been quite challenging when we've done that and put that out to lots of different people.
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