Mental model · Deciding

Reversible and irreversible

Reversible and irreversible: How much deliberation a decision deserves depends mostly on what undoing it would cost. Decide the cheap-to-reverse ones today.

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How much deliberation a decision deserves depends mostly on what undoing it would cost.

Try it now

List five decisions on your plate. For each, write what it would cost to reverse — in money, time and relationships.

What to do with the answer

Decide the cheap-to-reverse ones today. Give the slow pass only to the expensive ones.

Where it misleads

Reversal cost is not importance. Small irreversible decisions exist, and some cheap ones compound.