Zip Up Our Sleeping Bag.

The first step … is to forget about cracking the case or displaying your intellectual acuity. Try instead to see yourself modestly and realistically, as one of the fallible human creatures depicted throughout serious history and literature, as well as in contemporary social science. This will help you avoid mistakes and clear the way for the second step. - Joseph L. Badaracco, Managing in the Gray – 5 Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work

The First Step in the Five Steps to a Good Decision is - Step Back.

When we step back - we surrender to our humanity. We submit to the weight of the decision before us. To the height and gradient and difficulty of the mountain. We set up our base camp and crawl into our tent, zip up our sleeping bag and do nothing.

Confessing to our humanity only makes the heroism of the next four steps more magnificent.