If you can’t see the forest for the trees, then decision making becomes all but pointless.
For example, hydro-electric power generating plants.
Once, on a small stream near my home there was a proposal to build a micro hydro facility on the stream just downstream. I was opposed, and remain opposed though the proposal is long dead.
Upon recently examining my motives, I realized that at the time I simply didn’t want to see the damage to the stream, and the permanent aesthetic damage, for the construction and maintenance of the facility.
What I didn’t consider was the holistic view, one that encounters energy costs, local and external, energy types, dependencies on non-renewable energy and so on.
Hydro power is ugly, very ugly in the short term and long term. Hydro power is very renewable, very clean and very reliable, in the long term. Here in North Fork CA in fact we derive 80 percent of our power from hydro.
Luckily, the decision I made was correct even when filtered by reality, holistic reality.
Gives one leave, though, to shut up and listen, consider, weigh, move back, way back and look again, then decide.
And ya better have a goal in there somewhere or you are moving towards oblivion.