what all three of them have in common is…

Page 10 what all three of them have in common is that they use radical in flexibility to reach long-term goals that would be unreasonable if their behavior was more flexible. How so How so? Two reasons. First, constantly having to make new decisions situation by situation zaps your willpower. Decision fatigue is the technical term for this.

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · Art of the Good Life

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If the answer is that it is good, unimportant, and easily reversible — where to eat lunch — then it is a non-decision: choose at once and move on, with no agonizing. The whole art is to train your mind so you can run those three checks in an instant and free yourself for what matters — and there is a hidden reason this matters so much: every decision drains a little of the same finite willpower, so the fewer trivial ones you let consume you, the more you keep for the ones that count. But if an option is not obviously good, or it is important, or it cannot be undone, then you slow down and ask the single most useful follow-up question: do I have to decide this right now? — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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