One of the things taught in Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) course is SIPDE.

Scan Identify Predict Decide Execute.

On a motorcycle, you have to keep absorbing data on the road, traffic conditions, cellphone drivers et al and always know what you are going to do - brake, slow down or zoom past.

Startups or rather any project is sort of like that. Inform yourself, decide and execute. Anything else is certain death.