# Keep Your Doubts and Decide Anyway by Bryant McGill > “Some temperaments rarely feel certainty, and no amount of self-criticism will install a feeling that a nervous system does not readily produce. Change the behavior rather than the temperament: keep your doubts, and decide anyway. People waste enormous creative energy trying to become a different kind of person when the same energy could have been spent using the kind of person they already are.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream (Feb 2017)* ## Sources and Context - **Source:** [[livestreams/Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream|Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream]] — exact quotation from the developed livestream document. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity|Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Livestream:** [[livestreams/Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream|Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Temperament and Agency|Temperament and Agency]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Some temperaments rarely feel certainty, and no amount of self-criticism will install a feeling that a nervous system does not readily produce. Change the behavior rather than the temperament: keep your doubts, and decide anyway. People waste enormous creative energy trying to become a different kind of person when the same energy could have been spent using the kind of person they already are.” — Bryant McGill, Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Livestream (Feb 2017) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-keep-doubts-decide-anyway ```