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The moment you kill every other possible future to keep this one alive.
means The act of settling on one choice after weighing the alternatives, so that uncertainty ends and action can begin.
from From Latin decidere, 'to cut off' — built from de- ('off') plus caedere ('to cut, to strike down'). The same caedere root gives us words like 'incision' and 'homicide.' So a decision was literally a cutting-away: you sever the other options to leave just one path standing.
- shared root
- Same root as incision and homicide — all cutting
- brain cost
- Decision fatigue is real; willpower drains with each choice
- default trick
- Indecision is itself a decision, just a passive one