How to avoid becoming indecisive when encountering different advices from different people?

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so if there are many people you can sit, if there are many people who all give different kinds of advice and in trying to decide which advice to follow, we become indecisively procrastinate how do you avoid that? yes basically there are two aspects, ultimately when we take someone’s advice we are putting some faith in them and faith is required in every field in life, when I am sick and I go to a doctor the doctor tells me take this medicine now I don’t really know what that medicine is going to do but I put faith in that doctor but faith should be not blind but reasonable now reasonable faith means it should be sensible and it should be verifiable that means if I have stomach upset and I go to a doctor and doctor says you have to amputate your leg what? stomach upset? why do I have to cut my leg? so when we go to a doctor we just don’t blindly follow what the doctor says we hear their diagnosis, we see whether it makes sense and then after that whether it is verifiable verifiable means doctor says ok you take this medicine morning, afternoon, evening, in three days your stomach upset will go away we take it and we see now every time we have a stomach upset we don’t go around thinking oh there is Ayurveda there is allopathy, there is homeopathy, there is naturopathy, there is this that we don’t bother which all medicines are there, what is their merit what is their demerit no we go to whatever is easily accessible for us and we subject it to this test, does it make sense and does it work does it make my health better so like that we shouldn’t worry too much oh there are so many people with so many different advices, which one should I take we use our god given intelligence to evaluate if somebody tells us something, does it make sense does it make sense that is the first thing, is it sensible and after that is it verifiable if somebody says you do this things will improve you will be able to become a better person or you will be able to do this better, whatever it is we set a time limit for us I will try this for one week, I will try this for one month I will try this for three months depending on what it is that we are doing and then we see for ourselves as you said rightly procrastination will lead us nowhere so we have to take a decision and we use our intelligence and based on our intelligence we take a decision but we don’t have to make any decision into an irrevocable commitment now I have done this, this is what I am going to do throughout my life we do it as a test case this is what I will try out and in fact we see at the end of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna is in the Indian tradition is considered god but even he is not calling for faith, in the case of sense of blind faith he says at the end of the Gita Vimrishshaitadasheshena yathechasitathakuru in 18.63 he says, deliberate deeply on what I have said and then do as you desire so the Bhagavad Gita reveals the vision of a god who acknowledges human intelligence and human independence you have intelligence now you evaluate what has to be done and then after that acknowledge human independence now you decide what you want to do so it’s an invitational call it’s not an imposition it’s not a demand for blind faith so we use our intelligence to see if something is sensible and then we use our experience try it out diligently to evaluate whether it works so if something is sensible and verifiable we can adopt and thus we can move forward