Trouble in deciding which one? Try to flip a coin.

Michelle Santos
1 min readMar 2, 2015

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You have two option either this or that, and can’t decide which one. The ‘ghost’ of paralysis analysis is taunting you.

Here something that might help you:

  • Get a coin. For easy flipping, you may want to get the one that is at least an inch in diameter.
  • Choose heads for option 1, and tail for option 2.
  • Flip the coin. For better coin flipping technique, you may want to watch this NatGeo show ‘Going deep with David Reese : Secrets of Coin Flipping’.
  • Try to catch the coin, or let it fall to the floor.
  • Check which side of the coin is facing up.
  • Do or follow the option represented by the side of the coin facing up!

If in case, you are not happy with the result, then do the option of which the non-faced-up side represents. This means you are leaning towards this option in the first place, but you can’t seem to get yourself to follow your gut. You need a ‘sign’, in this case a coin to help you decide.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

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Michelle Santos

Solutions Lead - AI Biometrics | former Asst. Professor — UST | Contributor at Ungeek.ph | a Tea Drinker | Travel . Play . Explore . Eat