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The best decision to make is the right one and the worst one is to not. When I spoke in South Pal many years
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ago, Barack Obama was on stage and he said that as president like when he went and got bin Laden in that compound in
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Pakistan, they didn't know if Bin Laden was there, they'd never visually properly IDed him. So, he had to make
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that decision to risk American lives with, as he said, 51% certainty. And he says that's the the thing about being
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the president of the United States. You make huge calls with very little certainty. The most successful people
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that I've met do have that ability to be low certainty and make big calls with the peace of mind that they've made that
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call with the best available information. Some people listening right now with even small decisions are trying to
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get to 100% certainty when obviously 100% certainty only exists in hindsight. That's a really good point. I think
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that's a lot of people struggle with that when it comes to just just to own your decision. Whatever you choose to
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do, if you make it not under high emotion and you do the best you can with the information that you have at that
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time, you make a decision. If you make the wrong decision, then it's experience. If you make the right
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decision, then it's confirmation. The best decision to make is the right one, and the worst one is to not make a
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decision at all. And so if you have those type of leaders who just can't think through that problem, then that's
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not a leader.