Decisiveness Works

Information doesn't flow to the indecisive. It flows through action.

While you're researching, someone else is learning. While you're optimizing, they're iterating. While you're preparing to make the perfect decision, they've already made three imperfect ones — and course-corrected based on real-world feedback.

Here's what I learned about decisiveness from buying the wrong surfboard.

Information Trap

My friend and I took up surfing. After months on foam beginner boards, it was time to upgrade to proper fiberglass. Since neither of us had bought real surfboards before, we didn't know what to buy.

I took the "smart" approach. Six months of online research. Forums, reviews, YouTube videos, surfboard calculators factoring in height, weight, skill level, and local wave conditions in Santa Monica Bay. I became a theoretical expert on surfboard design.

My friend took a different approach. He walked into the local surf shop and rented a board. Took it out. Didn't love it. Rented another one. Better, but still not right. By week two, he'd found his board and bought it.

The results?

While I researched, his surfing improved dramatically. I remained on the beginner board, accumulating theoretical knowledge and zero practical experience.

After six months, I finally pulled the trigger on what my research indicated was the perfect board. Took it out. It was completely wrong — too advanced for my actual skill level. Spent three more months stubbornly trying to make it work because I was attached to my "informed" decision.

Total time lost to indecision: Nine months.

Feedback Algorithm

Here's what I missed: Information flows to action, not intention.

My friend's approach wasn't reckless — it was systematic. Each rental was a data point. Each session generated feedback impossible to gather from a computer screen. Wave feel. Balance points. How the board responded to his actual technique, not his imagined technique.

I was optimizing for the wrong variable. I thought I was avoiding mistakes. Really, I was guaranteeing them.

The universe rewards decisiveness with information. It penalizes analysis paralysis with stagnation.

Meditation Connection

This pattern shows up everywhere, especially in consciousness development.

People spend years reading about meditation, researching different techniques, comparing apps, waiting for the "right" moment to start. Meanwhile, someone else learned Vedic Meditation, started practicing, and began accessing deeper states of awareness.

The research approach assumes you can think your way to the right decision. The action approach recognizes that the right decision emerges through engagement.

Vedic Meditation works because it embraces the feedback algorithm. Twenty minutes, twice daily. Simple technique. Let experience teach you what thinking cannot.

No amount of preparation can substitute for the information flow that comes from actually closing your eyes and transcending.

Why? Because transcending gives you direct access to your own internal source of clarity — information that exists beyond thought, beyond analysis, beyond what any external source could tell you about your own consciousness. We call that knowingness.