Imposing our own limits can help reduce decision fatigue. We can spend less time sweating the small stuff and have more mental space for the big stuff. Having our own set of predetermined decisions—living frugally, perhaps, or creating a uniform for work—can help reduce the number of trivial decisions we have to make in our days. In turn, we have a greater capacity to consider the important choices, whatever we deem them to be, or meet the urgent and unexpected decisions sprung upon us. But even with the handy hints, at times I’ve still longed for someone to tell me what to do. Indeed, for a
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