Minimising decisions is like avoiding moving to conserve energy

I can’t believe anyone can seriously believe this nonsense

 

Does decision fatigue exist? Surely

Does fatigue exist? Surely

When you run a marathon — you may not want to still try do to 10k steps. You may want to minimise it. It may make you tired

Likewise when you had the hardest day of your life with hardest decisions — you may want to skip overthinking what colour to wear today

That makes sense

 

But idea that you can increase your energy levels by avoiding decisions is utterly idiotic

It’s naive

It’s utter pseudo-science, modern nonsensical pop-science, cobbling together various concepts and coming together with stupid “solution” to peddle

It’s as though making LESS steps a day would somehow tangibly give you more energy

It’s as though closing your eyes and not using them would improve your eye-sight

It’s as though NOT lifting weights would mean you’ve more strength to deadlift 500kg

It’s nonsense like that

It just doesn’t work like that

 

How does it work?

I don’t know, and don’t pretend to know more than I do know

The general rule though is that ORGANISM benefit from STRESSORS

Too much stressor overwhelms, overloads, and reduces performance

Enough stress generally fosters adaptation

 

SAME rule applies in life

Your business makes more the harder problems it solves for the more people

Your team is more likely to solve hard problems if they solved them already

Your product is more likely to be durable if it already endured harsh testing, and have been iterated upon

This is how it works

Not the opposite

 

If you minimise decisions, it’s like you minimise moving

Your decision-muscle atrophies

 

Look at the old people

Brain degeneration aside — their biggest problem is that they no longer have the salubrious stressor of WORKING FOR A LIVING

 

You’re not tired because you made 1000 decisions today,

what coffee to drink, which TV to buy, who to send your offer to, who to have a beer with, which route to take home, when to go to the gym, blablabla

You think this is tiresome?

You’re not tired because you made 1000 decisions today — you’re tired because you’re WEAK

 

There are only two reasons why one would ever be tired:

-Because they are WEAK

-Because they already EXERTED themselves

period

 

Most modern men are weak

I don’t want to sound too tedious, but:

netflix exists, social media exist, alcohol exists, video games exist, junk food exists, cars exist, etc

all those things exist and some people use them — and each time they enjoy them — they become WEAKER

The weaker you get the more easily tired you get, for any reason

 

Second option is that you already exerted yourself

In which case you go to sleep. Problem solved

 

You do something genuinely hard, a little bit harder than the last time — then you get TRULY tired — and then you go to sleep. Problem solved

 

Subset of being weak is our garbage emotional regulation and ruined brain chemistry

If you’re neurotic — of course the colour of your bra is going to make all the difference under the sun, and stress you

When you’re stressed — you get tired quicker. Stress if designed for fight or flight response, for SAVING your life — not for the selection of your cloths today

Ruined brain chemistry makes you tired too

If you can only focus on a Tik Tok dance — of course you’ll need a lot of energy to maintain the same focus when analysing the balance sheet of a business

 

But this is all subset of being weak

When you do hard stuff — you have a meta-realisation that you have to fix your brain and emotional regulation — in ORDER to have MORE ENERGY, and NOT get tired so easily

Not unlike a boxer learning he needs more stamina to knock that other guy out, because one punch is not gonna cut it

 

Minimising decisions is idiotic

Do MORE decisions

So that you get good at it

So that you drive the costs down of each decision, make the process more efficient