Happy Friday everybody! What are you up to this weekend?

Well, whatever you do, you might need a coat, because the weather seems to be on the turn, doesn't it?

Lately I've not known whether to put on my shorts or a jumper.

I'm off out tonight with a couple of friends. Do I wear a t-shirt for inside and a coat or just a long-sleeve shirt?

I don't know.

Depends how far we're going to be walking, maybe.

Depends where we go.

We haven't really decided anyway.

Which brings me to what I want to talk about today.

Something we are always dealing with and often without realizing it.

And it's called decision fatigue. That sort of

fuzzy-headed, I can't even choose what to have fatigue feeling that you get in some evenings.

Now, when this happens to you, you might think that you're being lazy or indecisive, but it's far more likely than it's

just your brain saying, mate, I'm done for the day. Because we make thousands of decisions

from the moment we wake up, what to wear, what to eat, how to reply to that awkward text.

And each one saps a little bit of our mental energy, like a phone battery that's running low by bedtime.

But it's not energy in a caloric way. It's a different sort of fatigue. Psychologists call this

ego depletion. The idea that every act of self-control or choice wears down our brain's

resources a little bit throughout the day. It's why we're more likely to snap at our partner in the

evening or skip the gym for the

sofa, even though we don't feel physically that tired. And not because we're scared of hard work

or weakwill or anything, but because we've run out of that specific type of fuel that motivates us.

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