When making a decision, especially an important one, most people take some time to consider their options. This is completely normal.
But what if, when weighing your options, you can’t get the scales to balance? Instead, you spend so much time thinking through choices you could make and end up not coming to any decision at all.
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Decision fatigue
As you make more decisions (especially difficult ones), and as you consider more options, you start to get mentally tired making your subsequent decisions worse and more difficult.
An excess of options will also increase your likelihood to avoid making a decision entirely.
For decision-making success:
- Book time to think: It’s counterintuitive, but making decisions faster requires consciously giving yourself time to make them.
- Define the decision: Before delving into deciding, get clear on the nature of the choice you’re making.
- Think through your options
Mind The Limitations Of Your Brain
- Decide important things early in the day, else decision fatigue sets in.
- Have snacks to keep your glucose high, else your brain will respond more strongly to immediate rewards.
- Sleeping or working on something else let’s you unconsciously work on complex ...
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