I like sleeping on decisions. I think it leads to better decisions.
I am not in favor of delaying decisions, particularly hard ones. I want to make them and move on.
But making a decision and giving yourself 12 hours to “sit with it” really helps. Sleeping on it does that for you.
It also does something else, which is it lets your subconscious brain work on the problem overnight and you wake up with more clarity than when you went to bed. At least that is how it works for me
So “sleeping on it” literally means sleeping on it as well as buying a short amount of time to sit with the decision and make sure it feels right.
There are certainly times when you don’t have the luxury of taking the night to sit with a decision. In those moments, you need to deliberate with whatever your team is and make the call and execute. These are crisis driven decisions, war time stuff. There is no sleeping on them.
But when you have the luxury of a night to sleep on something, I would encourage everyone to take that time. It really helps.
