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Decision fatigue 0:53
A 53-second explainer of Decision fatigue, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Decision fatigue is the way the quality of your choices degrades the more decisions you've had to make. Each one spends a little mental energy, so by the end of a long string of choices you're more likely to pick whatever's easiest, default to "no", or give up - not because you stopped caring, but because deciding itself is tiring.
By the tenth trivial choice your patience is gone and you just want it over - that's decision fatigue, not impatience. The streamlined version makes the same outcome happen with a fraction of the decisions: smart defaults and batching carry the load, so your attention is left for the one choice that actually matters. Fewer decisions, better decisions.
