Decision Fatigue
Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast
Timber Hawkeye
4.8 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Simplify your life even more, and avoid decision fatigue, by setting certain standards for yourself in advance. This way almost every decision would already be made for you, by you, ahead of time.
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye. |
| 0:32.0 | Every decision we make throughout the day renders our next decision more difficult to make. It's called decision fatigue. And what I've |
| 0:35.8 | discovered is that it's really helpful for me to make a decision one time that |
| 0:40.0 | makes a lot of my future decisions for me. |
| 0:42.5 | And that way, I don't have to make so many choices |
| 0:44.8 | throughout the day. |
| 0:45.6 | I mean, if you've ever stared at a restaurant's menu |
| 0:48.2 | and there were so many options to choose from, |
| 0:50.4 | it makes it more difficult to decide |
| 0:52.2 | rather than having to pick from three things and the same is true if you have a closet full of clothes |
| 0:56.0 | So many people say I don't have anything to wear and that's obviously not true. It's just that there are too many things to choose from |
| 1:02.3 | So what I've done is I've that there are too many things to choose from. |
| 1:02.6 | So what I've done is I've limited my choices |
| 1:06.7 | by making one decision that makes my future decisions for me. |
| 1:10.3 | It could be something as simple as shaving my head |
| 1:12.2 | once a week. |
| 1:13.0 | I don't have to worry about a haircut. |
| 1:14.5 | I don't have to worry about products. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm saving time. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm saving money and I'm saving the decision fatigue of never having to decide. |
| 1:20.5 | How do I want to wear my hair? |
| 1:21.8 | You know, do I need to fix it? I need to look in the mirror. I don't have to worry about it. I've eliminated all of that. |
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