Why does Joe Hudson say making more decisions beats getting them right?

Joe Hudson says most CEOs learn that 100 decisions a day beats 10 carefully perfected ones, because each decision starts an experiment that tests an idea against reality. He links decisiveness to a stable sense of identity: people taught that mistakes define them get stuck trying to be right. He notes that people stuck deciding for months often already feel the very trap or waste of time they fear, and that he tests as high on both conviction and openness.

• Both men endorsed George Mack's preference for being high conviction and wrong over low conviction and right.
• Alain de Botton's point came up: the loneliness people fear in leaving a relationship is often what they already feel.

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“Most CEOs start realizing that making decisions is better than getting decisions right.” Joe Hudson · at 1:21:17 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on Modern Wisdom (2026-11-02). Read the whole episode summary →

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