Experience the learning
Last week, I spent time with my family in beautiful parts of coastal Oregon. Amazing views, more importantly, time with no external connectivity to appreciate mother nature. A thought I always practice became even stronger, so I thought of sharing it on this platform.
What you see is just the tip of the iceberg; there is always more to it. Should we make decisions based on what we see or find out what is beneath to guarantee favorable results? On the other hand, this cliche ‘Life is full of surprises’ we keep hearing from our well-wishers - should we remove all surprises by assuring risk-free decisions - won’t the excitement of life be lost.
A bias towards action leaving some surprises while doing optimum research before taking a decision is always a win-win scenario in my experience, if the action results in the value you expected well and good, otherwise, there is always a learning in the process of going through the execution of the actions.
An analogy for learning can be an unbounded body of water, it never ends, or even if it ends, you should not be able to see that. If we wait for all the learning before making a decision, the surprise that comes with the result, which creates the most excitement and the opportunity to enhance your experience that comes with it, is lost.
You may not be the most successful person, but you will be the most content and happy soul if you succeed or fail fast by making faster decisions. There is a chance you can be successful as well. The other way around, you can be guaranteed to be in an imbalanced situation to work-life, and success remains a chance and a dependent baby.
The choice is always ours to make. I am in no way saying gathering data and researching is not important; a slight tilt towards action is a better proposition. Please share your experiences on this thought for me and any of my followers to lean on.
I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for the read.
Senior Software Engineering Manager
3 年Interesting thought process Raj Kiran - thanks for sharing. I guess there are no perfect decisions. A quote by Bernhard Langer - 'Be decisive - a wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision' makes a lot of sense in this context ..
Senior Vice President of Global Engineering | Infinera Executive Leadership Team | Doctoral Candidate
3 年Deciding things with no data is not an adventure, it's stupidity. So bias to analysis/action is not bad. In spite of this, life will continue to be what it is known for - Curveballs :) - cheers !
Director of Engineering (Head of QA and Customer Experience) at ThoughtSpot | SW Quality | Ex Cisco | NIT Surat
3 年My thoughts: As long as you enjoy the process, either way of taking action is good ! All people are of diff kind so their actions would also be at diff speed ! If we have to generalize , I would say take enough time and data gathering before taking actions which are going to impact people, relations or are for long term/strategic, for an example say re-org ! On the other side actions which can have short term impact, things related or can be fixed with money if gone wrong, dive in to it and "fail fast". Chote muh badi baat, so excuse me Raj Kiran !
Healthcare Executive | CEO of Dash Health | Transforming Mobile Diagnostics & Health System Innovation | Diagnostics, Delivered.
3 年Well said, Raj. Thanks for sharing.
Raj Kiran Successful leaders do practice the “fail fast” mantra.