Make Up Your Mind! For several days now coming out of my driveway, heading down the hill, a squirrel (possibly the same one) has run out in front of my car, then reversed directions, then changes his mind again, narrowly averting his demise among the myriads of his brothers and sisters scattered across the road kills of this continent. Probably most of us have seen indecisive squirrels before, or their remains. There is a danger in the inability to decide. Are you sitting on the fence? Make up your mind, and be willing to make a mistake if you’re wrong. I learned this lesson through Apoena Meirelles in 1980 while on an expedition up the Rio Jamarà to contact the hostile Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe. Apoena was the leader of the expedition and was a quick decision-maker. Sometimes his decisions ended up in a wrecked boat. We lost 4 out of 5 aluminum boats in the rapids (not always because of any wrong decisions he might have made – but because of the dangerous currents we faced.). But if ...