This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyse and the editor-in-chief over at numberfire.com

and this is episode 90 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part of

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There's this thing called decision fatigue.

It refers to, according to Wikipedia, the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an

individual after a long session of decision making.

Basically, small daily decisions can impact the willpower that you have for actual, important

choices.

Because of decision fatigue, you may do something like make an impulse purchase, or you

might just avoid making decisions altogether.

Some people who know this may do their best then to limit the dumb choices.

The Wikipedia page on decision fatigue actually notes that, quote,

major politicians and businessmen such as former US President Barack Obama, Steve Jobs

and Mark Zuckerberg have been known to reduce their everyday clothing down to one or two

outfits in order to limit the number of decisions they make in a day.

The more I've thought about decision fatigue, the more I've realized that my answers to

start-sit questions at the tail end of something like a Facebook Live that I do are probably

going to be less thoughtful than answers that I give at the beginning of them.

But because of decision fatigue, it may be best to make your start-sit choices at the

beginning of the day instead of the end of one, too.

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