My strategy is to mentally amplify my decisions to the space of all the other people who might be in my same situation, facing the same decision. I ask myself i

My strategy is to mentally amplify my decisions to the space of all the other people who might be in my same situation, facing the same decision. I ask myself if it would make the world better for all of those people make a given choice, and if so, I do it on the faith that they will. It's not about whether or not they actually will; obviously my individual decision will rarely have any kind of causal impact on others' decisions. It's about having a mental tool for weighing collective action; circumventing the psychological effect of the knowledge that, yes, your individual drop in the bucket probably won't make a meaningful difference on its own. At an individual level that logic is sound, but at a collective level it makes it impossible to create change. This strategy also works for voting, making donations, etc.