"The second is the discovery that attempts to make your reasoning explicit and verbal usually result in worse choices. This includes that favorite of guidance counselors: to write out a list of the pros and cons of all your choices - but it covers any attempt to explain choices in words."
Then what should we do? :(
Article says that making things explicit is bad, but on many occasions I read that making them not explicit is also bad - because mind is a convoluted mess and dumping things from head to paper helps see everything more clearly and consider more details, freeing up mental resources for more ideas to come. That's both Creativity and GTD 101.
When you write things down for GTD it shouldn't be done to help you make complex and preferredly rational decisions. It is done to help you remember, to relieve your mind from having to remember. Writing a task down is different from writing your reasoning for a decision down.
Fair enough; after thinking about it for a moment I realized that I probably mixed explicit reasoning with dumping information out of my head.
But still, does that mean that explicit cost-benefit analysis is bad? Or, when I'm confused about an issue I need to decide on, if I do a mind-dump of things related to that issue, does that lead to poor decisions? I'm asking, because so far I find it extremely helpful to do a mind dump, when I feel confused.
Then what should we do? :(
Article says that making things explicit is bad, but on many occasions I read that making them not explicit is also bad - because mind is a convoluted mess and dumping things from head to paper helps see everything more clearly and consider more details, freeing up mental resources for more ideas to come. That's both Creativity and GTD 101.
Am I missing something here?