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Dare Obasanjo Jul 20, 2023

Decision fatigue is a real biological phenomenon. The more decisions you make during the day, the more tired your brain gets and eventually the worse decisions you make.

So when you see that people like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg wore the same outfit every day to eliminate deciding what to wear. It’s a justification actually backed by science.

However we don’t understand exactly how decision fatigue works.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired

How thinking hard makes the brain tired

A neurometabolic account

The Economist

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@carnage4life this also extends to healthcare providers. Doctors have to be tied to a computer and take notes on everything a patient is saying to make sure that they can attach a code to everything for billing purposes. When you multiply that out across several patients you are bound to make some decisions that may be harmful to a patient. Not because of any fault of the physician themselves, but because they are decision fatigued and mentally exhausted.