If however the intended action is not obviously good…
If however the intended action is not obviously good, or the intended action is important or the intended action is not easily reversible, then other factors need to be evaluated. The first factor that should be evaluated is does or do you need to make this decision now?
— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)
In the book
The whole art is to train your mind so you can run those three checks in an instant and free yourself for what matters — and there is a hidden reason this matters so much: every decision drains a little of the same finite willpower, so the fewer trivial ones you let consume you, the more you keep for the ones that count. But if an option is not obviously good, or it is important, or it cannot be undone, then you slow down and ask the single most useful follow-up question: do I have to decide this right now? If you truly must decide now — the bomb is ticking — then trust the trained intuition you have built and act. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)