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The Trivial Decisions Trap: How Smart People Make Better Decisions, Faster
Save time and brain energy by optimising your decision-making process
Research suggests that the average person makes about 35,000 choices every single day. That’s a lot of thinking for your brain.
Every day we decide what to wear, eat or drink, what to work on and how to spend your downtime. We also decide what to watch, what to click, how to spend your evening and when to go to bed. We make thousands of other simple decisions.
Many of the decisions have no real impact on the trajectory of our lives, but we still have to make them. Decisions compound, though. Our accumulated choices in any given year take us to different outcomes.
If you make better judgements, you will accumulate better habits, routines, behaviours, which can help you build a better life.
Not all decisions in the day equal. That’s why it pays to optimise your decision-making process. There are a lot of opportunities to decide on thousands of things. And the more you engage your brain, the more energy it spends.
“The more decisions we make, the more it depletes us and therefore decreases our ability to make good decisions,” writes Jill Duffy of Zapier.
