MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Nov. 9, 2020 - Whether it's visiting friends and family, going out for dinner and drinks, or even going to the office, our ability to move freely and do as we please has depleted—many of us have just had to stay at home.
But what if we were to tell you that the uber-successful have been doing this all along? They've not been stressing about where to go, who to see, or what suit to wear—no, that would use up valuable brain time. Newsflash: reserving this important commodity is what has them sitting on their thrones in the Forbes Top 200.
Think Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein—they limited the decisions they made every day when at the height of their innovative genius to focus on the things that matter.
With this in mind, let's take a look at why successful people do so little and the benefits of that.
Decision fatigue
This might be an alien term to you, but it's a phenomenon you have undoubtedly experienced in the past. It exists as the deterioration of our ability to make good decisions. From the moment we wake in the morning until we put our head against the pillow in the evening, we are faced with an almost uncountable number of decisions.
What time do we get up in the morning? Do we go to the gym before work or after work? What do we have for dinner? What do we wear? These exist as some of the most simplistic decisions that we have to make every single day but somehow, we manage to mull over them for a considerable amount of time, sapping our decision-making ability.
What happens? Well, we focus our attention and our willpower on the things above that are, quite frankly, of lesser importance. By the time it comes to 2pm and we've a complex decision to make, our brain is tired and chooses the less appropriate, or wrong, option.
Physical fatigue is visible to us. We notice when our legs are getting tired and our backs are sore, but when it comes to decision fatigue, often it happens without us knowing.
How, then, do we avoid it and create more time for the decisions that matter?
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