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You can control this tendency by scheduling deliberate delays when under pressure to carefully strategize before reaching a final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on to learn more about the doubt avoidance tendency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Is Doubt Avoidance?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubt is painful, causing puzzlement and stress. When you feel doubt, you reach a decision more quickly than a fully considered decision would take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re already on a path, then plodding down your current path is psychologically easier than doubting the path and potentially causing upheaval. This is further strengthened by inconsistency-avoidance tendency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why It Evolved<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The doubt avoidance tendency evolved from stressful situations, like facing off against a hungry tiger, where doubting your actions for too long can get you eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How It Can Be Harmful<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To remove doubt, you can make poorly considered decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doubt avoidance tendency can cause a vicious circle where you start off on a bad track, then you cause yourself more stress, which in turn causes you to make more poor decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If your company\u2019s core strategy is failing, it\u2019s hard to reverse course. Proper actions, like pivoting a company and letting go of employees, introduce doubt. The easier thing is to just perpetuate the action.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Antidotes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To control the overactive flight response tendency, schedule deliberate delays before making decisions. Jury trials require careful deliberation before reaching a final decision. For your own decisions, \u201csleep on it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In stressful situations, give yourself the luxury of patience. Warren and Charlie are content to sit idly for a long time until they see a great deal. Having a larger resource buffer (as with more money or time) helps you avoid panicking in emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the doubt avoidance tendency? How can you control your fight or flight response? The doubt avoidance tendency is the inclination to make quick, poorly thought-out decisions during stressful situations. The pressure to remove doubt causes you to make ill-informed choices. 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