Every choice has an energy cost. Learn to manage your budget | Psyche Videos
Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different: spending mental energy on things that you consider productive or important gives you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.
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Cognitive load is like playing an iterated game of diminishing returns. Every choice—every click, every scroll—saps a little more of your mental energy. By the time you’re 20 decisions deep, your ability to make intentional choices is shot. It’s not that you’ve lost the game; you’ve been worn down by it.
In behavioral economics, this is known as... See more
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Decision Fatigue is Real—Make Important Choices Early 🕰️
Your brain has limited decision-making power each day.
✅ Make critical decisions in the morning, when your mind is fresh.
✅ Automate small decisions (like meal choices or routines) to free up mental energy.
✅ Create systems to reduce unnecessary decision-making (e.g., batching tasks).
💡 The fewer
... See morewe make a lot of decisions. Like, a lot. Constant decision-making is one of the reasons you don’t have energy for things that matter to you.
Kendra Adachi • The Lazy Genius Way
Decision fatigue is a cognitive shortcut that causes irrational trade-offs in decision-making.2 It emerges when mental resources are depleted after making numerous decisions, leading individuals to favor immediate gratification, oversimplify complex decisions, or default to familiar, less optimal options.