Best Choice

In the martial arts we strive to train and practice so that we may choose the best options, on the fly, when confronted with conflicts. The best choice must be intuitive/instinctual in nature so that means real-life experiences and real-life-like training and practice, lots and lots of it. 

It is now understood, by me anyway as of today, that the best choice is not exclusive to our goals in those decision making moments, i.e. under the effects of high stress dangerous moments. We need to make decisions fast and then execute them well vs. trying to choose the best or perfect choice. This seems, on the surface, a conundrum with today's self-defense training regimen, i.e. this act requires this response type thing. 

Apparently in an intuitive position or strategy we can not rely on knowing the best choice, and to strive to find that best choice is maybe one of those things that result in freezes. We as humans when using analysis in this scenario, self defense or the fight, etc., means we use too much grey matter to think and to obsess over the optimal choice - the best choice. 

Often, as stated to me, the true goal is to find the best solution out of a set of perfectly good choices. It seems that making it our goal to select good options that you can literally live with is the best way to go and training/practice, lots of it, can program your intuitive side into providing said good options to the lizard brain who will intuitively/instinctively act on the choice. 

When two or more options appear in what the author calls the zone of indifference, you just pick one and move on, act, do what is required. Accept the notion that choosing the best or right choice, best choice, is impossible especially in a fight, so to speak, then you can free up that bit of wasted time. After all, isn't it optimal to excel through the OODA so you can get there before an adversary?