A cryptic excerpt

Your way of thinking can be divided into two groups: synchronous and asynchronous. The former is what feels right or reasonable within your current psychological context. Asynchronous is what felt right or reasonable at some point, but may not now. (1/3)

Asynchronous decision-making by nature doesn’t “feel” right/natural, but the point is to recognize that your decision-making is skewed by physiological factors beyond your control and that you need to make decisions based not on whether they’re comfortable/feel right (2/3)

but what you know you would have done were you not emotional/mentally compromised, i.e. nervous (3/3)

To quote a topical Tweet from a few weeks ago: basically, your emotions influence your decision-making and in the moment when you're under the influence of your emotions, those emotive decisions seem correct

For instance, extreme risk aversion and opting for only low execution plays. That said, in such moments, it's not always correct to make decisions based upon what feels comfortable and sometimes is necessary to make decisions that don't feel comfortable

i.e. you have to have to see past the "illusion" which takes a leap of faith, and leaps of faith will never feel right or comfortable, but are necessary because we'll never make 100% correct decisions if we submit to what feels proper when we're under the influence of nerves

The operative distinction here being between reason and intuition. Hopefully I'm not overreaching by using this as an example, but an interesting parallel lies in what I understand to be a coping mechanism for those who suffer from sensory hallucinations

The person in question can't make the hallucinations go away, but they can reason their way through the hallucinations to discern reality from illusion.

To use an example I heard in a TED talk, one girl said she hallucinated a clown, and if she needed to go to the bathroom or something, the clown would block her way.

If she waited for the clown to disappear, she'd never get to the bathroom

So she instead recognized the hallucination for what it was, fought the fear and walked past the clown.