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Decision fatigue 0:33
A 33-second explainer of Decision fatigue, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
After sustained, effortful decision-making, people may shift towards defaults, avoidance or lower-effort choices - though the effect and its mechanisms vary a lot by setting and the evidence is mixed.
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.
