There’s this meme that captures human behaviour/intelligence in one image, which is the bell curve of intelligence.
On the left, there’s the simpleton who acts without much of a hesitation.
And on the right, the enlightened one who’s looped via all the complexity in the middle and returned to clarity to act.
Now, in the middle, you find the mid-curve, the one and only who knows just enough to overthink everything.
In theory, I think the mid-curve should be the most competent. Since they’ve read the books, gathered enough information to analysed the options. They need only a little push. But when it comes time to take action, something rather strange happens, they stall.
I think also it's actually a subtle feedback that too much mental noise can paralyse motion. The more we try to perfect the idea of doing, the less we actually do.
Because mid-curving towards action looks like:
Spending weeks building the “perfect system” before doing the actual work.
Planning the workout split, diet, and supplement stack before touching a dumbbell.
Waiting for the right moment to start something that only requires starting.
Evidently, It’s not that they’re lazy, one could argue so that in fact, they’re usually trying hard to find the right course of action. But in the pursuit of trying to do things right, they forget to simply do. Is that even possible? Apparently yes. When thinking replaces moving.
The irony is that both the left and right curves end up doing the same thing: they act.
The left curve acts out of simplicity, which is very much preferred just say “I’ll start anyway.”
Where as, right curve acts out of understanding, “I’ll figure it out the rest as I go. No biggie."
It’s only the mid-curve that gets lost in the fog of thinking about it.
Now, I wonder. In my own case, mid curving is a transitory phase, don't appreciate much of the mental/emotional fatigue that comes with having information and not acting on it for whatever reason the mind tries to cook up or emotions try to amplify.
My bias towards action isn't always a good thing however, depending on what good means here, I've regretted taking action with lack of information but the regret here is cleaner.
The other kind, the one tied to the opportunity that faded because I was too busy “preparing" tends to linger longer.
At some point, every doer realizes that clarity doesn’t come before movement, it usually comes from movement.
Trying to think your way into action rarely works.
Within reasonable limits, much better to act our way into understanding and then adjust.
It’s not that deep.
Take action.
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