One hidden productivity obstacle is decision-making. People can avoid or feel anxiety about decision-making when the stakes seem high. The reason is that they think like a judge about the potential outcome: it will be good or bad, right or wrong. Instead, use Casey’s eTip: Decide Like a Gambler, Not a Judge.
As professional gambler Annie Duke explains in her book Thinking in Bet, the binary yes/no system is not useful. it’s more effective to think about the quality of decision-making over time and to focus on your assumptions and biases, certainty level, the many potential outcomes possible, odds of success, and so on.