552 - How to Combat Decision Fatigue
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about decision fatigue.
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What is Decision Fatigue?
"As it turns out, your willpower is like a muscle. And similar to the muscles in your body, willpower can get fatigued when you use it over and over again. Every time you make a decision, it’s like doing another rep in the gym. And similar to how your muscles get tired at the end of a workout, the strength of your willpower fades as you make more decisions." - James Clear
- Everyone has a reserve of mental energy, and each decision draws on it
- The more decisions you make, the less mental energy you have
Two Ways to Avoid It:
- Proactive: Optimizing your day to day routine to reduce unnecessary decisions (the president)
Choose your outfit the night before
Set out clothes for workouts
Meal prep
- Reactive: Giving yourself space to reset and improve decision making (taking a break)
- Do something fun
- Take a break
- Stop for the day
Key Takeaways:
1. Plan to make decisions early in the day
2. Make small decisions ( like what to wear) ahead of time
3. Avoid impulse decisions
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| 0:00.0 | In this is tiny leaps, |
| 0:01.2 | we talk about how to deal with decision fatigue. |
| 0:05.2 | Get excited because this is tiny leaps. |
| 0:10.2 | Big change. Big. Welcome to another episode. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies |
| 0:29.1 | you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are |
| 0:36.3 | looking at something that we all struggle with, something that affects us on a day |
| 0:42.1 | to day-to-day basis, especially when we are trying to move forward, |
| 0:46.0 | create progress, change our lives, accomplish our goals. |
| 0:50.3 | This thing is something that rares its ugly head pretty much when we need it the least. |
| 0:57.1 | It always pops up when we are most vulnerable. |
| 1:00.9 | Of course I'm talking about decision fatigue and the role that it plays in our day-to-day lives |
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