Decide without owning the decision

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Sir, I want to ask you about ‘decision making’. Want to ask, more precisely about procrastination, about postponing things. What if you don’t have time to postpone something and if it has to be chosen immediately, is there a possibility of choosing the wrong way or is every way the right way, which leads to the same?

Acharya Prashant: Then you have been brought to a point if it has to be chosen right now.

Listener 1: If you have to make the decision?

AP: Then it has to be a random decision.

L1: It leads to the same?

AP: It is equally bad, this way or that way. So toss a coin.

L1: Is it equally bad? That’s the thing.

AP: You know, if you take any side, then you are asserting that you know something. It is better to just acknowledge that you don’t know. Or, if it is so very urgent, then if you want to back your knowledge, back it. But you should remain firm in the acknowledgement that it is just a blind throw or toss of the coin.

If you know that it is a blind toss of the coin, then you will not face the consequence of the action. When the results will come, then you will know that these were…