There's a peculiar moment in the Bhagavad Gita where Arjuna, paralyzed by the weight of everything he has to do, receives advice that sounds almost irresponsible: stop caring about results. Krishna's counsel in Chapter 2 — act without attachment to outcomes — is usually read as spiritual detachment, but paired with Herbert Simon's concept of 'satisficing,' it becomes something far more practical. Simon, the Nobel-winning psychologist, found that high performers don't optimize; they set a threshold for 'good enough' and stop deliberating once they hit it. Together, Krishna and Simon are diagnosing the same trap: the mind that won't release a task until it's perfect isn't being productive — it's being held hostage by an imagined future outcome. Today, pick one thing on your list and decide in advance what 'done' looks like — not perfect, just complete. Then let it go exactly there.

Which tasks on your list are you deliberately not finishing because finishing them would mean accepting they're imperfect?

Drawing from Indian Philosophy combined with Decision Theory — Krishna (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2) and Herbert Simon (Administrative Behavior, 1947)