MIRAMI · Decision Vocabulary
Decision friction is the repeated, often invisible cost of starting over, over-researching, or waiting — separate from how hard the decision itself actually is.
It shows up as time spent, momentum lost, and the same ground covered more than once. It is not the same as a decision being genuinely difficult, and it is not the same as not caring enough to decide. It is a pattern in how a decision gets made, not just what the decision is about.
You keep starting over before the last try had time to show anything. You keep looking things up when you already know enough to ask. You keep waiting for a better moment. None of it looks like failure from the outside, so the cost is easy to miss: time, money already spent, and chances that closed while the decision stayed open.
Decision friction is not a diagnosis. It is not a personality trait, a character flaw, or a clinical condition. It is not evidence that someone is lazy, indecisive by nature, or incapable of good judgment. It describes a pattern in a specific decision or type of decision — not a permanent label for the person making it.
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