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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Panelists Tayari Jones, John Paul Brammer, and Tara Ilsley share advice for listeners struggling with decision fatigue and weighing big moves, going back to school, caretaking, and more.
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0:00.0 | After a year and a half in this pandemic, my decision fatigue is pretty high. |
0:05.5 | I feel like I am waking up every morning and deciding my entire future over and over and over again. |
0:15.4 | The decisions that we have to make are really intense and they are really about our continued ability to live and survive. |
0:27.4 | And it's pretty exhausting. |
0:29.4 | I am harping a hard time making a decision about going back to school. |
0:34.0 | If and how I want to continue to engage with friends who are choosing not to be vaccinated. |
0:40.2 | To fly to Florida at the end of September for my grandfather's celebration of life with the rest of my extended family. |
0:48.9 | We have an almost three-year-old and we're trying to figure out when to put her in childcare. |
0:53.1 | I suppose you could say yes. I do have some fatigue. |
0:57.9 | This is death, sex, and money from WNYC, I'm Anna Sail. |
1:02.2 | And these days uncertainty feels like the new constant. |
1:05.8 | After nearly 18 months of this pandemic and the facts on the ground continually changing, |
1:11.9 | we are all figuring out how to respond, which contingency plans we need to develop, |
1:17.3 | and it has all gotten really tiresome. |
1:19.9 | Many of us are running into decision fatigue. |
1:23.2 | We're have been dealing with decision fatigue for a long time. |
1:27.4 | So on this episode today, we want to help you make one choice that you're struggling to decide. |
1:33.8 | We have asked you to send in some of your dilemmas about decisions, |
1:38.1 | and we have assembled a panel to weigh in and help you out. |
1:42.1 | They are friends and experts with us, Terry Jones, Terry Jones as a professor at Inher University |
1:48.4 | and the author of many novels, including the best seller and American marriage. |
1:52.0 | She has been on the sex and money many times. |
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