About this episode

This episode discusses decision fatigue and offers three rules to combat it.

Ever find yourself staring at your to-do list at 3 PM, unable to decide what to do next? Or ordering the same lunch every day because choosing feels impossible? You are not bad at follow-through. You are drowning in micro-decisions. Decision fatigue isn’t a dramatic mental collapse. It’s a subtle quality decay that creeps in […]

Topics covered

• decision fatigue
• micro-decisions
• productivity
• self-improvement
• time management

Keywords

• decision fatigue
• productivity
• micro-decisions
• self-improvement
• time management

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