People may be excessively cautious when facing life-changing choices. … For important decisions (e.g. quitting a job or ending a relationship), Individuals who are told by the coin toss to make a change are much more likely to make a change and are happier six months later than those who were told by the coin to maintain the status quo – Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions via Tyler Cowen on Tim Ferriss Show
When making substantive changes to my design file, I duplicate the artboard to preserve the previous state. However, I rarely end up revisiting these earlier versions. More often than not, major changes lead to better quality.
freakonomics experiment suggesting that people don’t quit as quickly as they should? That when they did a randomization experiment where they would flip a coin and encourage people who got heads to quit whatever thing they were thinking about quitting and people got tails to not. And they found that the people who got got heads and were told to quit did actually quit more often and their lives went better, or they reported that their welfare was higher three and six and maybe 12 months out.