What career should I pursue? Should I finish… or get married?! Where should I live? Big decisions like these can be agonizingly difficult. Indecision can hold you back when you need to make an important choice. The fear of choosing wrong and regretting it can be paralyzing.
Making a decision is not a simple task, and it’s essential to prepare thoroughly when doing so. But good choices don’t always come from decisions that took a long time to make; the most important thing is that the criteria used were effective.
In the video below, from the YouTube channel ‘TED,’ a channel that features the best TED Conferences by the world’s greatest thinkers, we see philosopher Ruth Chang talking to us about how we can approach very difficult choices.
When making an important career decision, it’s important to set guidelines to guide your thinking and organize your decision criteria.
Define your values. I’m not just talking about financial ones, but also consider what kind of routine you want to have and whether it aligns with what you believe your work should be. And talk about it. You can better organize your thoughts by discussing the subject with others, as well as gather different perspectives.
Throughout your career, you’ll encounter many difficult decisions, but they don’t have to completely drain your energy.
