Peak Stupidity

'Attention and awareness are deep interior human capacities that never get any training or air time.  What gets all the attention is thinking.  

So when you begin to cultivate intimacy with these other capacities it actually balances out our remarkable capacity for thinking and also for imagination and creativity.  

A lot of the creativity comes out of the stillness of awareness in not knowing.  

So rather than just keeping tabs on what we know, it's really helpful to be aware of how much we don't know. And when we know what we don't know then that's the cutting edge upon which all science unfolds.'

John Cabot Zen

Step 1 to the Five Steps to Good Decision Making: Step Back.

At the moment we’re smacked in the face with information demanding a response. A Decision. We are at Peak Ignorance. We Don’t Know.

Yet what’s our usual response?

To respond. To Decide. To Act.

An Impulse, not a Decision.

Why would anyone make a decision at Peak Stupidity?

Pause.

The Science of Good Decision Making unfolds when we Step Back and allow ourselves to watch ourselves crumple into an emotional bean bag and be ourselves.

And mould the soft cushion into the Cutting Edge of a Good Decision.