Doubt (c/d?)

I am plagued with doubt. So many people seem not to be. How do you/they do it? Is doubt a good thing?

"So many people seem not to be. How do you/they do it?"

frontin/hardman routine

Dud. After procrastination, doubt is my biggest time sink. Should I do this? Should I do that? I'll spend ages weighing up two different courses of action. Then I'll procrastinate over actually doing what I decided. Then cycle back to doubt and weighing up the options again. So doubt in conjunction with procrastination is very definitely dud dud dud.

I reckon Doubt is classic but...for some reason I'm not sure.

No Doubt I seem to remember as being pretty bad.

is this the same as over-thinking stuff? or at least linked to, i do that a lot. it's annoying for some things, but i'm almost sure it's saved my life on more than one occasion.

I don't think I should have said "plagued", "full of" would have been better.

doubt is onre of the main reasons we havent been wiped out in a nuclear exchange
cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
and why european christendom lost ground
so pretty classic

but in daily life it needs to be tamed

ugh self doubt, i hate it. do you have doubt in your abilities/yourself?

Doubt works perfectly well, so long as there is little or no penalty for delay. It encourages thoroughness and caution, and these can be good things in many circumstances. But when you must decide, because action is necessary, then you have to put doubt aside. As a friend of mine likes to say, the demand for certainty always far outstrips the supply.

The cure for self-doubt is simple enough. You venture a step beyond your comfort zone, evaluate the result, and when you're satisfied the result is acceptable take another step. Repeat as needed.