From Overcoming Serious Indecisiveness, a quote by Herodotus discussing how Persians make decisions:

If an important decision is to be made [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk and the following day the master of the house...submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Those Persians really know how to rock the casbah. That's an excellent technique.

Excuse me now while I go and try to decide what to have for dinner...

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