Out of nowhere, you're offered a genuine grand adventure (e.g. exploring the Amazon, becoming your fav thinker's live-in biographer, joining a team on the cusp of a field-shaking breakthrough) — but you have to pick up and go *now.* Your flight leaves in 4 hours. Are you on it?
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If you want to get all mathy about it, “optimal stopping” goes by the sadly sexist name of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem … TLDR when opportunities are costly and exclusive, and arrive serially, it’s safer to waste a few early opportunities getting a sense of what’s available
This assumes that grand adventures don't confer compounding value, which I think is just obviously untrue
