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"There's no secret ingredient"

I've found this to be very applicable to life. I often instinctively look for some magical silver bullet solution for hard problems. This makes it easy to procrastinate instead of just taking the best action I can come up with right now. To not act is also a choice and we often forget to compare the utility of non-action to action.

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Also you don't need the best action you can come up with. A good enough action will do (even inaction is an action). Also, if it turns out it wasn't a good action, well, s** happens, that's the upredicatable nature of life, so it will be fine, you will recover from it.

Sometimes it's better not to act. It's all situation dependent.

Sure but some of us (self included) seem to have a bias towards waiting for perfect information to appear.

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