Thinking abt what Alan Watts said about the advice problem - even when you solicit advice you end up choosing which advice you listen to
For many difficult situations, you can find valid-sounding advice that directs you in opposite directions
You might seek further advice on which piece of advice you should take, but then you run into the same problem again
All serious decision-making then is ultimately personal&lonely. This is obvious when talking about CEOs and Presidents but it's true for all
Those people just have much smaller peer groups to turn to for reassurance, but the reassurance is still kinda illusory if you think abt it
It seems that if you really grasp this, at a deeper than intellectual level, you shd greatly diminish yr need for assurance& justification
