How to Calculate the Perfect Time to Start

An analysis of the best time to start something

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Let’s do some critical thinking to try to determine when the perfect time to start something is, or even if there is such a thing as the perfect time to start.

There may be a perfect time for everything: one particular time at which if you start something, it will go perfectly as planned with no resistance or struggle.

The problem though is that if there is indeed such a time, it’s impossible to know when that is. We’d have to be able to do what Dr. Strange did in Avengers Infinity Wars. He looked at 14,000,605 outcomes and found one where they won.

Hold up, you’d actually have to do a bit more. He was looking for a way to win. We’re looking for perfection so we would have to look at an infinite number of scenarios from which to choose the best one. I don’t know of anyone who can do this yet, so we might be out of luck on that front.

The best that we can do is to use probability to determine when the likely best time to start something is. We can’t go back and start it in the past, so our only two options are to start it now or to start it in the future.

You know what’s happening now, so you can tell if you can start now. You don’t know what will happen in the future, however. The future can get better, stay the same, or get worse.

With these limited options, I think it’s safe to say that the best time to start is now. Why is that?

Well, If the future gets worse, you will regret not starting now because it will only make things that much harder.

If the future stays the same, then you will at least get a head start if you start now.

If the future gets better, you would have learned some valuable lessons from having started in a harder time which will be invaluable if you happen to end up in hard times further in the future.

With all that said, there is no perfect time that we can reliably calculate to start something. The closest thing we have to starting at the perfect time is to start now.

Let me know if this argument makes logical sense. And if not, tell me where it falls short. If it does make sense then the next thing for you to do is to start now. Whatever you’ve been postponing, now is the best time to start.

Go.