[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Problem-solving]] - People: Jolene Tan - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7j8F16eSqs --- ## Summary - [[Decide faster by reducing time, choices, and consequences]]. - [[Decision fatigue]] can make people more impulsive and less confidence while making choices. - [[Your experiences and the stakes shape the mental burden of making a decision]]. - Delegate decisions where possible and optimal. - [[Sweat the details, not the distractions.]] Remove decisions that don't matter. - [[Don't sweat the small stuff]]. Save energy for the decisions that truly matter. ## Notes ### Fatigue - Mental and physical exhaust impacts your decision making capabilities. - [[Decision fatigue]] from extended periods of decision making can result in sub-optimal decisions or even [[Analysis paralysis]]. - [[Decision fatigue]] can make people more impulsive and less confidence while making choices. - Decision fatigue can be dangerous in industries and situations with life-or-death based outcomes. ### Threshold - We have daily thresholds for many decisions. - Once that threshold is met, most people defer making difficult decisions for another day. - The energy expenditure required for a decision is dependent on your experience and the perceived consequences of that decision. - [[Your experiences and the stakes shape the mental burden of making a decision]]. Your past and potential outcomes determine how much a decision burdens you. - Distance between decisions provides opportunities for recovery. - The difficulty of a decision is defined by it's complexity. Complexity, in this context, comes from the amount of time you have to make the decision, the amount of choices you may have, and the amount of consequences that may happen. ### Improvements - The key to making decisions quickly is to ruthlessly reduce the amount of time you have and the choices and consequences to consider. - Practice the art of decision making as such that the task becomes system 1 vs. system 2 thinking. Where making a choice, regardless of consequences, is fast, automatic, and intuitive. - [[Time spent deciding is better than time spent regretting]]. - Tackle your todo list over multiple days. - Remove decisions that don't really matter. - Delegate decisions where optimal and possible. - [[Don't sweat the small stuff]]. Save energy for the decisions that truly matter. - [[Sweat the details, not the distractions.]]