Abdurraheem Green – Decision Fatigue

			Assalamu Aleikum Welcome to shake up the Raheem Green's official YouTube channel. Today we are going
to be speaking about decision fatigue. Now, before we get into the topic,
		

			why is it important to study decisions? What impact do decisions make in our everyday lives?
		

			Well, I guess, I mean, everyone is making decisions all the time. And some of those decisions are,
		

			you know, not very important decisions, but some of them are life changing decisions, not just for
you, but for the people who you make those decisions for. I mean, all of us, in some degree or or
another are in a position of leadership and responsibility. Almost everybody,
		

			even even children, to be honest, children are many children are in a position of leadership over
the younger brothers and sisters.
		

			You know, the mother is in charge of the house and the family and the kids, let alone whatever other
occupation she may have, she may be working these days, who knows,
		

			you know, and similarly, men,
		

			they have responsibility of their families. And in addition to that, they may have all sorts of
responsibilities, whether they are, you know, managerial, just a work, whatever. I mean, the point
being is that we all have these responsibilities, and these responsibilities inevitably
		

			involve making decisions. But I guess the group of people to whom this is going to be really,
really, really important,
		

			and who really need to sit up and pay attention and understand what's going on? Is anybody involved
in management, anybody involved? Well, I mean, anything more senior than that, really, because then
you know, your ability to make, I mean, the whole point of it is the whole, your ability to make
decisions actually just deteriorates throughout the day.
		

			So that's what decision fatigue is basically about that when you have to make a lot of decisions. So
decision making is it's, it's, it's intense, it's a it's a, it's intensive on your brain, it's
intensive on your mind.
		

			And your mind, at least, this is one theory of mind, you know, it has been, it has been challenged,
it's not everyone agrees with it.
		

			But there's this idea that, you know, your mind is sort of, it's like a muscle, and just like any
muscle, it will get tired, if you exert it, if you really have to exert it. And you really have to
strain that muscle, it will get tired to the point of fatigue, it will just not be able to function
or barely able to function properly.
		

			And that's, you know, one of the things that, you know, it's one of the five pillars of the, you
know, the pillars, not the five, the seven pillars, I have this course, The Seven Pillars of
willpower. And the first thing is to understand that willpower is limited in your ability to control
your temptations, your ability, I guess willpower even involves, it will involve because making
decisions is still about controlling your impulses, it's still about controlling your ego, it's
still about controlling your desires. You know, so anyway, let's go to the classic, you know, the
classic, you know, case, the two, it's a bit of a pun, that the classic case,
		

			which is discussed on this issue of decision fatigue, and it's actually about a quart of Israeli
judges
		

			who were examined, you know, that their judgments were examined, and basically the long and the
short of it is they found that people who went before these judges in the morning, were more likely
to get parole, and people who went in front of those judges in the evening, were more likely to go
back to prison. And they just found that this was, you know, it was statistically very clear. And it
was really,
		

			it was
		

			really independent of the merit of any particular case. It's just, it was just I don't remember
exactly the percentage, but it was large. So really, the only thing that the only common factor and
this happened, this was, you know, this was found over quite a long, lengthy period of time, you
know, with quite a few judges mean, it was pretty consistent. So the only really thing, the only
difference, the only differentiating factor was that these people who went before the judges in the
afternoon, ended up going back to prison and not getting parole, whereas the ones who went in front
of the judges were more likely to get parole. Why? Well, in the end, they figured it out. And they
		

			said, well, basically what happened was when the judges when people were presented in front of the
		

			judges in the morning, they looked at the cases carefully, they considered the situation carefully.
And, you know, then they decided whether they would deserve parole or not based on the merits of the
case. But by the time the afternoon came, the judges were tired, they were this, you know, this need
to make quite, you know, quite tough decisions about whether you're going to let this criminal back
out into the public or not. And whether this person was, you know, whether the public was ready to
have this person back out amongst them, they just defaulted to what they considered in their mind
was the easiest decision, and the easiest decision was just send them back to prison. Right? So you
		

			have to remember, these are prisoners who have already committed a crime, they've been sentenced to
their crime. Yeah, they're gonna get whatever it is, say five years, right. And in front of the
parole board to be let out early. So it's not like any big injustice is being done here. Right? They
got five years, that's what they're supposed to serve. Right? So it's very easy in a judge's mind to
say, you know, what, best thing to do is just send this guy back to prison. That's just the safe
option, right? So what happened, this is decision fatigue, right. So what happens is, what happened
was that they were just really exhausted from the effort of having to make these decisions. So they
		

			defaulted to what was really just the easiest thing for them to do. Now, you know, you can imagine,
however, where that is not just now a simple case of a prisoner who's got five years goes back to
prison and doesn't get parole.
		

			Decision, fatigue, could really impact all sorts of things. It could impact whether you win or lose
a battle, it could impact whether you press a button that's going to launch some missiles, it could.
It could be whether you sack a group of people or not, it could be whether you do the correct risk
assessment, as a management team that will either get the organization in trouble are not which got
me thinking so well, since we're live here. Right on, you know, it's interesting. When is your
senior management team meeting?
		

			Which is probably the single meeting in the week that involves making the most important decisions.
Since you know, I'm just wondering how good you are acting on the information that you've got in the
afternoon, which isn't Yeah, which is, which I was thinking actually on the run up to this. And I'm
just as guilty because I instituted I, but I've always said, I'm, I would like to have it after
fajr.
		

			Yeah, that's what I've always said, the best time for me is the habit after budget.
		

			Now, I've got to drop the kids off at school. Yeah. Oh, no, I've got to this or No, whatever, right?
This is the problem, of course, right. So you know, I'm just, I'm just just for everybody, right?
When you when you need to make important decisions, you need to make sure you make those decisions,
when your mind is fresh, when you are the least fatigue, don't fatigued, do not make important
decisions at the end of the day, or at any time when you're really mentally tired and exhausted.
That's really the important thing about decision fatigue.
		

			I just want to add about not only the importance of, you know, this being a limited resource, when
we think about productivity share, because you know, there's this prevailing idea that a person who
does very long hours and is tired and falling asleep at work. They're the hard worker,
		

			Jeff Bezos was asked about, you know, something about his work. And he said, he said something
really funny. He said, I get my sleep in, he sleeps a good seven hours and a good working day. All I
need to do is make two or three decisions. Yeah. And I'm done. He's not four, there are three, two
or three good decisions. Yeah. Right. And that's the key thing. And add to that not to make five or
six other bad decisions.
		

			Right. So the temptation is to just keep on making decisions, right? Yeah, you make two or three
decisions, right? So you got to analyze it a little bit more carefully, right? Because the guy is
smart enough to realize that I should only be making two or three decisions a day. I shouldn't be
making any more decisions than that. Right? He will probably limit himself. It doesn't matter almost
how important it is. What's the point in me making a super important decision when I'm tired? It
could be a disaster that could ruin my company or whatever? I don't know. Right? Okay. So, yeah,
there is absolutely something in just limiting yourself right to making two or three decisions a
		

			day, making sure they're good decisions, refusing to
		

			Allow yourself to make, you know decisions at a time when you know that either those decisions will
be neutral, they will have to be made again, or even worse, they will be really bad decisions. Now,
of course, you can't always do that, right? I mean, sometimes it happens that you have to make a
decision immediately.
		

			But even then, you know, there's things that you need to take into account, you know, like, if you
are forced to make a decision, and you really have no choice, then even then, that, you know,
there's things that you can do to mitigate,
		

			you know, making bad decisions in terms of consultation, for example, in terms of doing something in
order to just be able to refresh your, you know, refresh yourself mentally, right.
		

			So, as much as possible, you want to avoid making snap decisions, right? I mean, let's say, let's
just say, for example, an emergency happens, right? It's late in the afternoon, you're so exhausted,
something comes through,
		

			you know, you know, you've got a few hours, well, you know, the crazy thing to do, maybe, maybe you
need to just go in a room, you know, lie down here, just close your eyes, chill, you know, whatever,
do whatever it takes to just totally clear your mind and get some rest, right. And then, you know,
approach this decision as fresh as possible. You know, so, it's things like that, like, you know,
this whole thing where they say, you know, just sleep on it, it's actually generally really good
advice. If you can just sleep on it, you should do that. Right? You don't shouldn't allow people to
force you into a corner, or making decisions when you don't need to.
		

			And, you know, let alone making a bad decision. could be disastrous. Yeah. And would you say that,
you know, there's obviously the issue of making too many decisions. And sometimes the same thing, as
the judges do, simply not to make the decision. But we destroy our ability to focus and concentrate
and have this limited, you know, will because of our zombie scrolling and all the other activities
in the SAP sauce. And so we think, because we haven't decided on something, we haven't actually,
we've got nothing to lose, when in fact, that itself is a decision when you don't act. You know, I
think this needs to be highlighted that, you know, sometimes people think I didn't take an action,
		

			therefore, I didn't make a decision. But actually, you did.
		

			Something's pressing. And well, yeah. I mean, it goes back to that old chestnut that we were talking
about last week, as well, that comes up again, and I'm sure we all deal with it. Procrastination,
you know, zombie scrolling can often be
		

			you know, it can be, you know, it's part it's just part of procrastination as part of you putting
off and we talked about it last week anyway, it's all it can become a very easy excuse. In your own
mind. Obviously, when you sit down with someone else and discuss it, you know, you pretty much
quickly you know, it's the Emperor with no clothes in reo. Like, it doesn't take much for someone to
call you out and say, bro, you're just wasting your time you think that's, you know, the that thing
that's productive? No, it's not.
		

			But you know, the point being is we can trick ourselves to think we're being productive, we can
trick ourselves to think that there is benefit in this zombie Scrolling Stuff that may be very
occasionally there is you know, 100 things, there may be something that is, unfortunately, the
problem is it soon gets lost in the next 99 things that follow it. And it very, very rarely
translates itself into some tangible action. I think this is the the other thing that's really,
		

			you know, like, if you follow this whole COVID thing, what has happened with COVID? Now, there's a
whole group of people who, you know, at the beginning, they were being called a conspiracy
theorists, and the crazy thing is, is that, you know, at least a good number of the things that they
were saying just proved to be true. Right? It's crazy, right?
		

			Yet, no one seems to be able to have the focus, yeah, to pursue this thing properly and take it to
its logical and rational conclusion. Because there's just another crisis, another thing and
whatever, and no one seems to have that ability to focus and concentrate on anything for very long.
And this this whole thing of being permanently distracted, but back to your your point, you know,
not making a decision is a decision. You're right. I mean, unless you're consciously saying I am not
going to, you know, and I'm thinking more here about someone like usable, right, for example, right?
As a person who is in a senior management position, and you're asked to make a you know, a very
		

			definitive decision.
		

			Should we fire this person? Should we shut down this team? Should we open this country? Should we
spend this money here or there? Right? So I'm thinking if something, you know, for you to say, I'm
going to think about that I'm going to sleep on it. We'll decide tomorrow, right.
		

			Yeah, that that itself is a decision isn't that you know that, but I think that's very different
from what you're saying? Is that the decision to sort of leave it and do nothing? You're right. In
that sense, in that sense of, yeah, I'm just, you know,
		

			what, in that sense, as well, yes, you're right, that isn't a decision. But that's that, you know,
so we're talking about something different. Now we're talking about, you know, something that may be
just a byproduct of laziness, right, of just not being organized or wasting your time of
procrastinating. Because sometimes, you don't want to face the fact that doing that particular thing
is going to involve a lot of hard work. Yeah. That's what it comes down to. Or it's going to take
you out of your comfort zone. You know, so when I was developing my willpower course, there were
things that I felt very comfortable doing, I felt very comfortable reading lots of books, I felt
		

			comfortable taking notes, I felt very comfortable summarizing those points. Yeah, I felt pretty
comfortable putting my ideas down on paper, none of that was really difficult for me, right. The
thing that was really challenging was actually then turning it into an actual script. Yeah. And then
getting down at actually filming it. Right? That was the thing, right? That was really, really
difficult for me, right. And I still find myself with that same challenge. I you know, I don't find
it difficult to generate ideas, right? I don't even find it difficult to note those ideas and come
up with some sort of quite concrete formulation of the details of it. But when it comes down to that
		

			bit of a now I actually have to write it. Yeah. And then I have to film it, let alone if you have to
edit it,
		

			then you know, then then that's the stuff that is the genuinely really hard work. I mean, I have the
most so much admiration, people don't realize
		

			that, you know, the huge amount of effort that goes into create content, you know, when people talk
about I want to become a YouTuber, right? You know, whatever the YouTube is, like, not you and me
just chatting now, which is, you know, one thing, right, but even something like that, even
something like this is not quite as easy as people think it is. Right? It's still not as easy as you
might think, you know, but let alone when you're developing your own content, filming it, editing it
coming up with ideas, it's really, really, really hard work. It is not an easy life. Yeah. If I
don't think whatever money they get is minimal, compared to the amount of effort a lot of these
		

			people put into developing their content. Right. So yeah, I mean, and let alone from an Islamic
point of view all the different challenges. And, you know, that's a whole different subject, we
will, maybe it will be a great
		

			you know, thing to discuss some time, you know, the thick of social media, the thick of content
creation for Muslims.
		

			Yeah.
		

			Recently, we were, you know, going back and forth discussing a particular controversial well, it
seemed to me controversial character, Muslim,
		

			whatever, know what you call it, blog, or YouTube or whatever?
		

			And, yeah, I mean, it seemed to me, the guy really needs to do some studying about what is
appropriate and not appropriate in terms of what are you allowed to say and not allowed to say, what
what is appropriate to say, as a Muslim, you know?
		

			So yeah, maybe we need to get that sort of stuff out there. But yeah, I mean, back to
procrastination. You know, that's what that's what I mean, you're right. Procrastination itself is a
decision. It's a decision not to be it's very subtle. You see, like decisions when we're talking
about decision decision fatigue. Yeah. So we're being a bit more precise, right. So the judges have
to, you know, they don't know they got to make a decision one way or the other. Right. Are we going
to get this guy parole? We're gonna send him back to jail. Right? It's one of the two things right,
there is a decision involved right here.
		

			Whereas saying, Okay, we'll review this case tomorrow, we'll have another look at it. Well, that's
slightly different. You're not okay. You are delaying it by a day. But you're still you're still
going to have to make the actual decision. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. So yeah, yeah.
One of the things I think which is important to highlight here is what is what is the actual
consequence in one's life if they have a habit of being indecisive
		

			commodity? Well, I, you know, I have to be honest, I would have to study it a lot more. It's not
something that I've looked into a lot. And I would, I would not necessarily like to say that it's
good or bad, right? Because there is a whole, there is a whole way of thinking that procrastination
is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I do remember reading
		

			some very counter intuitive stuff, things that are very, very counterintuitive about
procrastination. Right.
		

			And that, that, that, that you may think that people who procrastinate, that's a bad thing, but
there's some counterintuitive studies and information that actually indicates something very, very
different to that.
		

			But again, I you know, right now, I, you know, I'd have to go back and sort of reread that and re
study it.
		

			So yeah, I mean, you know, on a personal level, on a very personal level, you know, when you want to
get something done, you know, you want to get something done, right.
		

			And you keep procrastinating, a lot of that has to do with you know, being uncertain about yourself,
being worried, being afraid, not wanting, you know, like, it's just an avoidance strategy of your
own mind, it could be a load of things, it could just be your natural laziness, it could be your
uncertainty, your lack of confidence, of course, there are various ways
		

			to tackle that. And as a Muslim, one of the ways you tackle it is, you know, having Tawakkol in
Allah, you know, and making dua to Allah, and then making esta hora. And then once you've made, it's
the heart of being firm, and being very committed to that decision that you've made. So this is one
of the things that we are encouraged to do in Islam, you know, to make to think about it, make your
decision, make sure make sure first, right, ask Allah seek the help of Allah make your decision, and
then stick with it. You know?
		

			And it may not, you know, it may or may not work out how you want it. But one of the important
things is getting used to that process, right. Getting used to there's no failsafe process. That was
very interesting. About decisions. Yeah, good. This is very interesting. Let's give an example from
the life of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one of them, I find this one of the most
fascinating
		

			things that you can examine in terms of decision making process. And that is the battle of offered.
Right? So prior to the Battle of offered the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he can, here's the
thing, he made shorter with his companions. Now, the method of shore is quite interesting that
generally, you know, when someone is going to be intimately involved in something, you want to
consult those people, right. So when I say intimately involved, I mean, for example, a battle, right
in the battle, people are going to volunteer to fight. And that's as intimate as you can get your
life is going to be put on the line. So generally, you want to consult those people who are going to
		

			be sacrificing their lives, as to whether what do they want to do now you're not giving them a
choice to fight or not, that they don't no one had a choice about life because they had to fight.
But where do you want to fight? What's going to be you know, so this was the interesting thing, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam says, Okay, how are we going to fight this battle? He's making
sure.
		

			Now, you know, the, many of the youngsters they were saying, we want to go out and meet these
people. We want to fight them in the battlefield, right? We never let them come to our town. We
never let them come to our city. Right? That's our customer. That's our habit. You know, they're all
full of, you know, fighting talk right? Now, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi. Salam didn't want to do
that he wanted to turn Medina into sort of defensive thing and fight from within Medina. But that
was what they had decided. Now, even as far as I remember, the prophet had had a dream that he would
win right? From within the scene. Of course, that did happen. Right later in the Battle of the
		

			Confederates in the Battle of the ditch, the Battle of the ditch, right, they won, they defeated the
enemy, so his dream came true. But the prophet saw the Prophet said, okay, he went with the shura,
even though that was not his preference. He went with the shorter, right, and he made a decision and
he put on his armor
		

			ready to fight
		

			you know, so after some time when these guys had cooled, you know that this excited they'd cooled
down
		

			They said, You know, we should have listened to the Prophet, we should have listened to him, we
should have done what he wanted. Right? You know, that was the wrong thing. Please, they went back
to the Prophet sites and they said, you also will allow we shouldn't listen to you. I'm sorry, we,
you know, we're just to whatever, let's do what you want. The Prophet said, No. He said, That's it,
once a messenger of God has put on his armor. There's no way back, you have to go out and fight.
Right? Now, you know, okay, that may be a particular thing to a prophet. But it just shows us as
well, this is because the Prophet told us in other places, right, about the importance of sticking
		

			to a decision once it's been made. Right? Once you've gone through the process, you make the
decision, you stick with it, because the other alternative, even though you can say you could argue
that the Muslims lost the battle of Muhammad. Right, you could argue that right? It certainly wasn't
a resounding victory. Right. And yeah, they continue to defend Medina. But in terms of the actual
battle, it didn't go that well for the Muslims. And you know, a lot of senior companions were
killed, and so on and so forth, and the Prophet himself. So Allahu alayhi, wa sallam was injured in
that.
		

			So, but the point being, is that what's the alternative? What's the alternative? Do you? Do you want
to develop a habit of constantly changing your mind? I've never been able to stick to any plan, that
anything, anytime something goes a little bit differently, or someone changes their mind or enough
people make enough noise? Yeah. And what if it's not a sincere group of people? What if it's a bunch
of hypocrites? What if it's a bunch of people who don't wish you well? Right? And they make a big
noise? Yeah, no, we can't do this. And we shouldn't do that. And you just listen. And you just get
used to showing everybody that every time you make a decision? Well, you know, when enough people
		

			come and moan and groan, you change your mind and change your course. Right? What? What sort of
leader you're going to be what sort of organization is that going to be? What sort of society is
that going to be? Right? The alternative is worse, right? Meaning that's not a good place to be,
this is not a good way to run your life or your society, your family's life, you know, or your
organization's, you know.
		

			And that's why at the end of the day, having that respect for the emir, and their decision is really
important. You know, whether it's in the family, whether it's in an organization, or whether it's in
the nation in the society.
		

			What's interesting about this is
		

			that there's nothing in the Sierra that's going to be superfluous to human life, to human experience
to the way human beings live. And not only is it that the process alone was the Quran walking. The
Battle of aha chose us that, you know, when Allah says in the Quran, when you make a decision, put
your trust in Allah, as you know, we, we we can sort of, we can understand that, whenever you make a
decision, there's always that 1% of us that says, Let's revise the decision. Let's let's maybe try
this, okay. But as, as we know, anytime you take action, you are never going to get the result that
you expect to things are always gonna be different. So natural tendency is let's go back and change
		

			the plans. And the issue here is that this will happen ad infinitum, because there is no plan. And
the I remember speaking, there's no perfect plan. There is no perfect plan. I remember speaking to
a,
		

			a
		

			scholar about this. And he's really into management, and you know, these types of things. And he
said, one of the big problems Muslims have nowadays is that we have this issue that anytime things
go wrong, there's this unpredictability, we start to panic, we says, this is like, we shouldn't be
doing that.
		

			It is very hard to okay, I want to make this decision, things have gone slightly different. Okay,
I'm going to stick to my decision. You really have to train yourself to do that. And you definitely
do. And I think one of the things is also the woman needs to recognize, and we need to recognize
whether your money to recognize this. You never know where the benefit lies. Yeah. You may I mean,
when I say, Oh, it was a defeat. I say that with a big qualification, right? militarily in terms of
a battle. You couldn't claim the Muslims won the battle. It doesn't mean that there were not huge
benefits of what happened in Auckland. It doesn't mean that the Muslims did not learn a great
		

			lesson. It doesn't mean that there were not many, many benefits that were derived from it. Right.
		

			And, you know, I have to
		

			be, you know, like, you know, I can't resist bringing foot
		

			got into it. But I have to say is that, you know, talking about not panicking in the jaws of defeat.
Morocco would were really impressive. They didn't I was just literally waiting for them to dissolve.
I'll be honest. Yeah, I'll be absolutely honest. Yeah. I was waiting for them to crumble to France
to get another two goals. Right. I was literally just waiting for it. They did not know. In fact,
they played a heroic, it was heroic. I mean, France were clearly the better team. Yeah, there's no
doubt that France defended brilliantly. They have some good strikers. And they just had that little
edge, but Oh, my God, like it was heroic. Yeah. It was just joy. I mean, I don't I'm not even into
		

			football. I don't never ever, ever watch football, except when it's the World Cup. But that one
point they didn't give up. That was impressive. Because, you know, you we have sort of got used to
seeing Muslims do that. You know, when things get tough.
		

			The tough wit, you know, they say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. That's we have the
because generally by and large, almost the opposite has happened. Right? You know, we this whole
crowd is like fighting to the end, you know? Yeah. Like the line was it was it was truly impressive.
And I think you know what I mean, you know, we don't want to take football analogies too far and
whatever. But, you know, and, you know, obviously, it's just football. It's just the game. Well, it
isn't just the game. Nothing. I don't think anything's just the game. Yeah, it's just not true.
Sport is sport, whatever you want to say we this whole World Cup has shown how intermixed and
		

			interwoven sport and politics is. Yeah. You know, from the disgraceful reporting of the BBC. Gary,
Lineker is disgusting, you know, tirade against Qatar, the complete failure to criticize any other
state who's done horrific things we'll see when it comes to America, whether they talk about all the
human rights abuses that take place in America and the death penalty, and also a bunch of, uh, you
know, black people still getting shot and whatever, in the street by police, you know, whatever.
Right. I doubt they'll be talking about that stuff. Right. But he just shows that this claim that
politics and sport, you know, don't have anything to do with each other. It's not true. Right? It's
		

			very political. Right. But yeah, I mean, that's a very important thing. And you don't want to fall
and I think that was, this is another thing about the Battle of ahould. Right, which is a really
important historical event to study. The other great thing about it was that despite suffering some
really horrific casualties, and being pretty badly mauled in that battle, right? The next day, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had rallied the Muslim army, right? And went back out again, to
chase the Qureshi. Whenever, you know, the issue of pretty happy to just run back to Mecca, they you
know, so I, you know, from from a strategic point of view,
		

			you know, they stopped the Quraysh invading Medina, which is that's a good win, right? From the
actual specifics of the battle, it was a bad morning, but that's the great thing is you see the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, getting the Muslims chasing? Ah, this is something that, you
know, number one sends a signal, yeah, we're not finished, you know, to the Croatian number to boost
the morale of the Muslims, again, to show them that, no, we're ready to keep fighting, right. And
that that's a really, really difficult thing to do.
		

			Right?
		

			Rally everybody, and just go out again, for you know, round two.
		

			And so that, again, shows, right is that importance of, you know, even when things don't work out
the way you want, you got to pick yourself up. Right. And, and just try again.
		

			You know, Robert, the Bruce thing, if you don't succeed at first try try and try again, you know?
		

			Absolutely. And this is the attitude of the believer, essentially, you know, what else is, what's
the point of, you know, having this great book with these affirmations because the Quran has these
affirmation is very positive affirmations is not just about, you know, memorizing them without
actually deeply reflecting about about them and, you know, when the process of them speaks about,
you know, planting the seed even if the Day of Judgment will begin. So, you know, this is all a
decision that you have to make about your identity. Am I or am I somebody who, you know,
		

			am I indecisive? Sometimes we have this we label ourselves with certain things you sometimes have to
act
		

			See, and call yourself certain things that you have to say no, I am a decisive person is one small
thing I want to just want you to take, I think you need to go now. Actually, no, we should end the
stream because God no finish the script.
		

			Just one thing I was going to mention, when I asked you about procrastination, you said you can't
say whether it's a good or a bad thing.
		

			I just wanted to say that, I think we can categorically say it's a bad thing when someone
procrastinates equally, on deciding what shoes to buy, and whether to hire a person.
		

			I've seen people with certain dispositions when it comes to procrastination and the NCAA between
things which are really not important, like really not important and things which are really
important. And they start giving everything equal amounts of time. Yeah, that's a different problem.
Right? So that's a different issue to do with productivity, right. And that is a prioritization
issue, that is an inability to prioritize what is important over what is less important. And that's
a hugely important skill to develop as well, right? Just for every human being, if you want to, if
you want to get your life more productive, you've got to focus on the few things that really matter.
		

			Right? It's not quite the same, right? And when I say is procrastination, you know, a bad thing.
Right? I'm just talking about it in in a sort of general sense. Is that like, what is going on
behind it psychologically? Right? I have to look into it. Let's, let's have another discussion about
that. Because I do remember reading something that was really counter intuitive.
		

			And that was, you know, like,
		

			you know, really not you would like I said, it's very counterintuitive. So why might create
procrastination actually be beneficial? What are the actual benefits of it? Right? Is it all bad?
But generally, no, I mean, look, you know, we can all recognize that procrastination, right?
Definitely has negative effects. i All I'm trying to say is it is it is absolutely bad as we might
initially try to paint it as that's what I'm saying. Right? I'm not saying procrastination is good.
I'm just saying it may not be quite as bad as we think it is. Right? That's what I'm trying to say
I'm trying to qualify it. Right. And there may be even even times when, you know, procrastination is
		

			a good thing.
		

			You have to remember that, you know, deep down what's going on what's going on, it all goes down to
some deep soul. Very basic, you think thing is when you break everything down? Most things come back
to some very basic instincts that we have some basic drivers, right. It's just fear, right?
Procrastination is fear? Well, you know, like that initial fear may be something very simple, you
know, do I want to jump from this branch to that branch? Right? If I know that branch is close by
and that branch is thick? I'm not worried about it. I know I can do it. Right? If that branch is
another three yards away, and that's particularly then I'm going to be thinking, you know, am I
		

			gonna make that even if I make it? Will that branch hold me? Right? That's what procrastination
comes down to. Right? That you are genuinely afraid. Because what, there is some type of injury that
is going to, you know, it's going to take place. But of course, today, we're not dealing with
jumping from, you know, cliff to cliff branch to branch, you know, am I going to take on this enemy
or not? Whatever it may be. It's all to do with these egos, this self image that we have of
ourselves, which we think of as being, you know, a threat to it as as horrible for us as an actual
threat to our life. Right? So what is procrastination? It's our fear of failure. It's our fear that
		

			if I do commit myself to something, right, and I, you know, and I fail at it, how is that going to
damage me? What is that going to damage? How's that going to damage my self image? Right? And yeah,
what is that? So, you know, from, you know, it does come from a place of this sort of primordial,
instinctive fear, that often is totally misplaced, because of all these things that we talked about
a lot. So, you know, the point being, the point being at the end of the day is that it's not always
necessarily bad, right? Sometimes you do want to wait, sometimes you do want to think about things a
little bit more. Right?
		

			Yeah, so that's the, you know, that's the issue that we need to investigate. I think, brilliant. We
can do that next week, inshallah. Oh, gosh, you have to start doing some reading and studying.
		

			Come, come next week is gonna be like, Oh, dear. The UK. You can explain why you procrastinated this
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