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The paradox of plenty - the psychology of making better, stronger decisions · Do You F*cking Mind?

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Speaker 1: Hello, beautiful beans, and welcome to the podcast episode of today.
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Speaker 1: My name's Alexis Fernandez and this is Do Your Fucking Mind.
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Speaker 1: This is the episode Slash. This is the podcast that
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Speaker 1: helps you change your relationship with yourself and with your brain.
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Speaker 1: But just before we dive into this episode, just a
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Speaker 1: quick thank you to Honda and the Honda z Ave
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Speaker 1: I do stuff from the podcast and also other stuff
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Speaker 1: So today we are going to be talking about in
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Speaker 1: this episode the Paradox of plenty. We're talking about decision making,
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Speaker 1: understanding what it means to have too many things on
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Speaker 1: your mind and why that can actually hinder you instead
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Speaker 1: of help you when you're trying to make the right decisions,
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Speaker 1: and also when you're trying to ease off that cognitive load.
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Speaker 1: There are so many things in our life that add
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Speaker 1: to cognitive load, and things that we don't even realize
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Speaker 1: are happening. Okay, when you can identify those things and
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Speaker 1: simplify those things. You're going to feel a lot more lighter,
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Speaker 1: You're going to feel more focused, you're going to feel
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Speaker 1: overall happier. Your mood is going to be better, and
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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to make better decisions for
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Speaker 1: yourself and for your life and just in general. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it's actually a bit of a game changer. So
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Speaker 1: I hope that you stay tuned in for the whole
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Speaker 1: time and really rip the benefits of this episode. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be doing a brain factor. The brain fact
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Speaker 1: of today is going to be on the fact that
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Speaker 1: the brain has no pain receptors. What does this mean
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Speaker 1: for headaches? You're going to find out very soon. But
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Speaker 1: before that, I have my little takeaway slash recommendation which
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do in every episode, and that is
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Speaker 1: I was just talking to Shanira about it because she
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Speaker 1: was like, I've run out of shows to watch, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, have you watched to be fair of
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Speaker 1: only watched one episode and I'm already hooked. But it's
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Speaker 1: called Your Friends and Neighbors or your neighbors and friends,
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Speaker 1: I think is your friends and neighbors anyway with John Ham,
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Speaker 1: stop it. Don't talk to me unless I talk to you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing. Anyway, Separate to that, I did have a
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Speaker 1: life update What was it going to be? Oh, I've
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Speaker 1: been doing you know, if you guys listen to my
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Speaker 1: how to what was it how to fall in love
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Speaker 1: with your life or how to romanticize your life? Whichever
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Speaker 1: that episode was. One of the things was to write
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Speaker 1: one sentence every single day, so that way you've got
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Speaker 1: like a book that you can read. I've been doing
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Speaker 1: that for the last few days or weeks, and okay,
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Speaker 1: it's more than a sentence. I've blown it out to
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Speaker 1: about a paragraph every day. It's very quick to do.
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Speaker 1: It's like roughly a minute to do it, and I
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Speaker 1: am loving it because I've noticed that when I do this,
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Speaker 1: even throughout the day, I'm having pockets of the day thinking, oh,
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Speaker 1: is this going to be what I write about? Is
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Speaker 1: this going to be my paragraph? Is this? So the
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Speaker 1: writing of the paragraph is beneficial, but it also makes
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Speaker 1: you during the day. It brings you back into the
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Speaker 1: moment thinking like is this that magical thing I write
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Speaker 1: about or is this fucking frustrating thing that I have
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Speaker 1: to write about? And I feel like it brings you
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Speaker 1: more present into like what will make my day really
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Speaker 1: great or difficult, or something I overcame or something hilarious
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Speaker 1: that I can then document later in the day. So
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Speaker 1: I think it helps both ways. It's nice to document it,
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Speaker 1: but it also reminds you to be really present throughout
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Speaker 1: the day. Okay, Now, this episode is a slightly special
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Speaker 1: episode because it is brought to you by obviously me,
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Speaker 1: but also Honda. So thank you so much Honda for
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Speaker 1: helping me put this episode together. Honda's z r V
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Speaker 1: design philosophy around comfort and convenience is also helping us
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Speaker 1: reduce unnecessary complexity in everyday life. It helps streamline our
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Speaker 1: decisions so we can put our attention on other things,
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Speaker 1: which is obviously the goal. So thanks Honda. Let's get
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Speaker 1: straight into the brain fact of today. So, like I said,
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Speaker 1: the brain fact we're going to be talking about is
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Speaker 1: the fact that your brain has no pain receptors. And
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Speaker 1: it's interesting because the basically the part of your body,
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Speaker 1: the brain, which is designed to help you feel pain
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Speaker 1: and protect you everywhere else in the body does that,
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Speaker 1: but it's so cannot experience pain. And the reason for
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Speaker 1: that is that the brain itself contains no susceptors. NO
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Speaker 1: susceptors are pain receptors, and they are specialized neurons that
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Speaker 1: detect extreme heat extreme cold, because obviously heat is enjoyable
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Speaker 1: until the point. And then the NO susceptors kind of
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Speaker 1: like switch on pressure, like extreme pressure, tissue damage, chemicals
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Speaker 1: released during injury. So they're detecting all these different things.
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Speaker 1: You're going to find them, of course, in your skin,
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Speaker 1: your muscles, your joints, your organs, your blood vessels, your meninges,
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Speaker 1: which is the membranees, these three protective layers of the brain.
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Speaker 1: So you've got them there, but not inside the brain
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Speaker 1: tissue itself. So this probably makes people think, well, what
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Speaker 1: about headaches, because headaches are extremely painful. Headaches are actually
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Speaker 1: coming from the meninges or blood vessels, all cranial nerves. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so especially the cranial nerve number five, which is known
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Speaker 1: as the trigminial nerve, and this is the largest cranial nerve,
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Speaker 1: and it's responsible for sensory information, like sending sensory information
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Speaker 1: from the face and controlling the muscles that are used
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Speaker 1: for chewing. So it's got these three main branches, and
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Speaker 1: you've got the ophthalamic, the maxillary, and the mandibular division.
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Speaker 1: So this is like quite a major kind of highway.
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Speaker 1: This cranial nerve so very sensitive. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: like pain information that could be sent to the brain
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Speaker 1: from there, but the actual squishness of the brain itself
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Speaker 1: does not have any pain receptors. So migrains involve activation
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Speaker 1: of you try to say this ten times in a row.
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Speaker 1: The trigaminovascular system also certain neuropeptides, inflammation around them, ninjas
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Speaker 1: and changes in brain activity, but not pain from the brain.
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Speaker 1: It's and this is why you can have people awake
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Speaker 1: during brain surgery. You give them a local atesthetic to
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Speaker 1: where you need to kind of you know, enter the brain. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: they don't feel anything because you've got the local. They're
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Speaker 1: cutting through the skin all of the layers to get
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Speaker 1: to the brain, and once they're inside the brain, the
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Speaker 1: patient doesn't feel that the brain is being touched or
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Speaker 1: moved or anything like that. And this is often done
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Speaker 1: on purpose actually, so the patient can be in a
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Speaker 1: way guiding the surgeon so they can work through tissue
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Speaker 1: and ensure that the patient isn't losing any like movement
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Speaker 1: or still able to talk and they're not doing anything
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Speaker 1: to tissue that they can that really cannot be lost,
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Speaker 1: so very cool. And when you do electrical stimulation of
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Speaker 1: the brain, of course it doesn't hurt, but it can
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Speaker 1: create things like memories, movements, smells, laughter, emotional experiences. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just thought that was a really cool brain fact.
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Speaker 1: At the organ that makes you experience pain can't experience
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Speaker 1: pain itself, which is very cool. Let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: paradox of choice, because I think this is something that
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Speaker 1: is a blessing and a curse in all of our lives.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to have a life where you have
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Speaker 1: zero choice at all, because then you feel like you
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Speaker 1: don't have control over your life. But the curse comes
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Speaker 1: in the form of where you have so many choices
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Speaker 1: that you are not here nor there. And even when
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Speaker 1: you do make a decision, the knowledge of the fact
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Speaker 1: that you could go back and reverse that decision and
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Speaker 1: maybe I should have gone here maybe makes you never
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Speaker 1: truly delve deep and really experience that thing that there
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Speaker 1: is to be experienced. So it ends up hindering us.
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Speaker 1: We're never truly present and we're always wondering what if.
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Speaker 1: It's very much living as the grass is greener on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the grass is greener in the
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Speaker 1: one thousand other options that I didn't choose because I
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Speaker 1: chose this one. Or worse yet is you don't make
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Speaker 1: a decision because there are too many options to choose from.
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Speaker 1: And then it's that paralysis via analysis. Okay, And we
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Speaker 1: think that exhaustion comes from and mind you, it does,
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Speaker 1: but we think that it comes from just working too
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Speaker 1: hard or not sleeping enough and all of it. But
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Speaker 1: it also comes from too many, way too many decisions.
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Speaker 1: And we have like a decision making quota in our
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Speaker 1: day every day, and then when you sleep, you kind
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Speaker 1: of replenish that because your brain has that like recovery,
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Speaker 1: gets flushed through with cerebral spinal fluid. It kind of
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Speaker 1: washes out or that literally washes out the debrain and
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Speaker 1: your brain and you start relatively fresh the next day
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Speaker 1: if you've had a good sleep. But every day you
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Speaker 1: wake up with a decision making quota, and whether it's
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Speaker 1: a big decision or a small decision, it is using
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Speaker 1: that energy, using that cognitive effort to make decisions and
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Speaker 1: decisions small decisions such as what am I going to
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Speaker 1: wear today? What way am I going to get to
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Speaker 1: work if you go a different way every time. What
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Speaker 1: am I going to do before work this morning? If
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Speaker 1: every morning is very different and disjointed? What should I eat?
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Speaker 1: I don't really know, like I haven't organized what I'm
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Speaker 1: eating today? And maybe I could do this I'm norty
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Speaker 1: or there? Should I exercise? And if I do? Should
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Speaker 1: I walk? Should I do this? Should I I don't
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Speaker 1: know which emails should I answer first? Or should I
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Speaker 1: be answering these text messages? Or should I have done
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Speaker 1: that task first? And also of course when we're talking
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Speaker 1: about fun things to do, where should I go and
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Speaker 1: eat out? And what am I going to choose to eat?
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Speaker 1: Or what TV show do I want to watch? And
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Speaker 1: there's all these decisions that we make constantly, constantly, constantly.
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Speaker 1: This is another reason why I think people fall into
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Speaker 1: the trap of social media because they're like, ah, it's
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Speaker 1: a it's like a respite from things, because then it's
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Speaker 1: sat mindle the squall and you're not making all these
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Speaker 1: little decisions, so it feels like a rest, but you're
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Speaker 1: not actually getting that nice recovery time when you're doing that,
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Speaker 1: And it's actually really difficult to calculate how many choices
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Speaker 1: we make every single day, but on average according to
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of studies, but who knows how specific
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Speaker 1: this is. The average person who's going to make thousands
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Speaker 1: of decisions every day, okay, and then of course when
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Speaker 1: you add it all up, it's creating this crazy cognitive load. Right.
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Speaker 1: So let's first talk about what is decision fatigue. So
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Speaker 1: decision fatigue is the decline in your quality of decision
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Speaker 1: making after prolonged decision making. So when you're making decision
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Speaker 1: after decision after decision, then you're the quality of you
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Speaker 1: being able to make a decision goes down. And it
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Speaker 1: also makes it harder for you to feel like confident
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Speaker 1: about a decision that you've made, for you to lock
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Speaker 1: in and be like, yep, this is the one that
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Speaker 1: I should have made. It makes it harder for you
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Speaker 1: to feel that way. Okay. The prefrontal cortex is heavily
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Speaker 1: involved in planning, it's heavily involved in evaluating, like weigh
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Speaker 1: up all your options, and of course self control. So
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Speaker 1: as you use it more and more and more, you're
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Speaker 1: becoming depleted. And when people do that, they then avoid decisions.
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Speaker 1: Oh you decide for me? I can't be fucked. I's
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Speaker 1: had such a big day. How many times have we
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Speaker 1: said that? Where like your partner's like, what do you
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Speaker 1: want to watch tonight? I'm like, I cannot make one
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Speaker 1: more decision. I just I don't care at this point,
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Speaker 1: you have to decide for me. Procrastinating of course, because
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Speaker 1: the task seems insurmountable, but part of that task might
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Speaker 1: require decision, and that's why we then put it off,
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Speaker 1: choosing the default option. Sometimes I personally can be like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I want to watch, so I
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Speaker 1: watch something I've already watched because at least I know
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Speaker 1: the outcome and I know that I liked it, which
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Speaker 1: is crazy. But I'm a huge offender of watching something
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Speaker 1: more than Once Sex and the City You've Got Mail.
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Speaker 1: I could go on and then making impulsive choices. Now,
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Speaker 1: impulsive choices can be good and they can be bad,
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Speaker 1: but I'll go into that a little bit later. But
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Speaker 1: because of all of this, you basically end up with
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Speaker 1: the emotional capacity for fucking leech. Right, You're just sitting
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Speaker 1: there like a blob, and you're like, I don't know
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Speaker 1: who or what I am At this point, I just
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Speaker 1: need to go to sleep. And that's what happens at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day when you deplete these cognitive resources.
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Speaker 1: So here's some really interesting examples. I was looking into it,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, crazy about cognitive depletion or your decision
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Speaker 1: making decline throughout the day. Judges are more likely to
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Speaker 1: grant parole earlier in the day than later, so they're
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Speaker 1: more likely to look at someone's case and look through
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Speaker 1: thoroughly and be like, yep, okay, it's worth taking It's
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Speaker 1: worth taking that risk because I've really assessed this case properly.
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Speaker 1: So whereas they're going to be more safe, they're going
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Speaker 1: to play it safer later in the day, and they're
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Speaker 1: probably less likely to grant that person parole because they're like,
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Speaker 1: if I've got to err on the edge of like safety,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say no to the parole, okay. Consumers
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Speaker 1: spend more money when they're meant to be depleted, So
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Speaker 1: stop shopping online in the evening. If you're going to
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Speaker 1: do online shopping, do it in the morning, so you're
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Speaker 1: probably gonna have a little bit more control over what
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Speaker 1: it is that you buy. And people are more likely
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Speaker 1: to abandon their goals when they're overwhelmed by choice. And
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Speaker 1: this is a really good one for you guys to
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Speaker 1: think about, because if you've got many goals in different
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Speaker 1: areas of your life, this could be another reason why
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Speaker 1: you might be a bit flippant on your goals. I've
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Speaker 1: got a fitness goal, I've got this other random health goal,
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Speaker 1: I've got this organization goal, I've got this goal, this
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Speaker 1: goal saving goal. And then it's like too many fucking
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Speaker 1: balls in the air. And I'm not saying don't have
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Speaker 1: those goals, but I'm saying, how can we streamline everything
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Speaker 1: else in our life to make us more likely to
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Speaker 1: stick to the many goals that we are trying to
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Speaker 1: Now let's quickly talk about the paradox of plenty, and
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Speaker 1: this is that initially, this idea that having all these
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Speaker 1: options feels really liberating initially because it does. When you
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Speaker 1: go from zero options to having all these options, it's
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Speaker 1: like wow, Like remember the first time you ever walked
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Speaker 1: as a kid, if you are my age, walked into
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Speaker 1: a blockbust, it was like, holy shit, this is the
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Speaker 1: coolest thing in the world. And the fact that you
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Speaker 1: could rent three videos was like mind blowing. And then
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Speaker 1: they switched it that you could rent seven videos, and
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Speaker 1: it's like, what am I going to do with my
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Speaker 1: life with seven videos? It's just outrageous, Like what I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna be sitting on the couch. I hold await,
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Speaker 1: this is just unbelievable. Then we've got streaming services obviously,
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Speaker 1: and that's just so initially you're like, this is the
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Speaker 1: coolest thing the world. This is so fucking amazing. And
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Speaker 1: I think we've all experienced having so much on offer
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Speaker 1: that we end up scrolling for so long, and then
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Speaker 1: we're like, I might as well just go to bed
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Speaker 1: and listen to a podcast, or you know, scroll on
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Speaker 1: my phone from bed because I haven't found something that
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Speaker 1: I want to watch because there's too much on offer.
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Speaker 1: So it acts for a lot of people, switches to
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Speaker 1: anxiety because it becomes becomes harder to lock something in
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Speaker 1: same as like a menu. Give me a menu with
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Speaker 1: five fucking meals on the menu. Okay, I don't need pages.
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Speaker 1: The moment the menu has pages, we have a problem.
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Speaker 1: Unless it's like a wine list, and even then, don't
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Speaker 1: fuck it, don't just one one a pino noir. Okay. Now,
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Speaker 1: this guy called Barry Schwartz, he's actually written a book
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Speaker 1: called The Paradox of plenty. I'm actually got it. It's
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Speaker 1: called the No Sorry, it's called the Paradox of choice.
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Speaker 1: Why more is Less? He wrote that in twenty two
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Speaker 1: thousand and four. Yeah, and basically his work around decision
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Speaker 1: making shows that excessive choice actually does reduce satisfaction and
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Speaker 1: it increases regret because you're always thinking, fuck, should I
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Speaker 1: have made that decision? We all know what it feels like,
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Speaker 1: dating apps, streaming services like I just said, career paths,
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Speaker 1: all these things where we feel like, God, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's so many other possibilities. Did I make the right one?
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Speaker 1: And then you work walk for further and further down
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Speaker 1: that path. And if you're always thinking about all the
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Speaker 1: other possibilities, you're thinking, oh, don't. But I want to
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Speaker 1: say something quickly before I move on. This idea of
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Speaker 1: sitting in our potential, the idea of having endless potential
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Speaker 1: feels really good. But if you never try and realize
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Speaker 1: your potential, you will be very dissatisfied with your life.
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Speaker 1: In order to realize your potential, you have to close many, many, many, many,
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Speaker 1: many many doors, but you actually make something off yourself.
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Speaker 1: Don't fall into the trap of thinking well, if I
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Speaker 1: sit here and I could go down that path, and
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Speaker 1: I could, I couldn't. There's endless possibilities for me, and
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Speaker 1: I'm just at the beginning of my twenties and I
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Speaker 1: could be doing all these things. So I just wait
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Speaker 1: until something really lands in my lab and I'm so
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Speaker 1: far compassionate and interested. No, no, because you're actually making
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Speaker 1: this whole paradox of plenty worse for yourself. You start thinking, well,
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Speaker 1: because I haven't embarked on something yet, and because that
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Speaker 1: thing has to be perfect, and because there's so many options,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to make the right option,
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Speaker 1: so I don't want to lean into something too quickly.
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Speaker 1: But that's just a delusion that we have. The only
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Speaker 1: way you're going to feel truly, truly satisfied is if
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Speaker 1: you lock in and do that thing, and it will
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Speaker 1: always benefit you because even if it was a mistake,
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Speaker 1: you will never think about that thing again. You're like,
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Speaker 1: I tried it, I gave it a fucking red hot go,
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Speaker 1: and I was either shit at it or I didn't
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Speaker 1: like it. So I was able to close that door
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Speaker 1: and I never have to think what if. So we
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Speaker 1: will serve you regardless, Okay, and then you do that
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Speaker 1: with the next career path that interests you or that
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Speaker 1: you're leaning into based on your personality type and your
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Speaker 1: interests and all of that. So, yes, we have more
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Speaker 1: freedom of choice now, more than ever, but we also
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Speaker 1: are feeling more overwhelmed than ever if you look at
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Speaker 1: just the general population, that's what most people feel. That
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Speaker 1: comes into cognitive load and this lifestyle that we have
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Speaker 1: in this day and age where you're having to process
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Speaker 1: so much as well, because we're thinking of decision making
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Speaker 1: as like I said earlier, what do I have to wear?
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Speaker 1: How what am I going to eat? How am I
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Speaker 1: getting to work? Which task am I going to tackle first?
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Speaker 1: If you don't have a routine, what's my morning going
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Speaker 1: to look like? But on top of that, we're also
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Speaker 1: processing all these other things that don't maybe feel like
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Speaker 1: a decision at the time, but absolutely are. So when
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Speaker 1: notifications are going off, you're telling yourself, I'll listen to
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Speaker 1: that later, or I've got to respond to that message,
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Speaker 1: but maybe i'll respond to in a sacy. This is
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Speaker 1: all decisions. These are all decisions that you're making. I'm deciding, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Now I've got to remember to do that. That's cognitive load.
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Speaker 1: Now I can't forget to reply that test mensage because
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Speaker 1: I've already opened it. And then but I can't reply
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Speaker 1: right now because I've just on my way to this,
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Speaker 1: or I'm driving all this or that, and I don't
17:22
Speaker 1: have fucking you know where I can audio whatever my
17:24
Speaker 1: text message. And then before notifications, schedules that you have
17:29
Speaker 1: relationship demands, work demands, all these things are decisions that
17:33
Speaker 1: you need to be making, and they are all contributing
17:36
Speaker 1: to that mental load. This is why those major high performers,
17:40
Speaker 1: a lot of CEOs try and streamline their life by
17:43
Speaker 1: having either a really strict morning routine, like they'll always
17:46
Speaker 1: eat the same fucking thing every single morning, to the
17:48
Speaker 1: extent that they'll even have their bowl and spoon ready.
17:50
Speaker 1: And there are certain people that do that because they're like,
17:53
Speaker 1: I want to get up and not start eating into
17:55
Speaker 1: that decision making quota until I absolutely have to. Steve
17:59
Speaker 1: Jobs famously for like always wore the same outfit, same
18:02
Speaker 1: as that psychopathic woman who what was her name, Fernos?
18:06
Speaker 1: She always wore the same shit because she was basing
18:08
Speaker 1: it actually off Steve Jobs, right, This idea of like
18:11
Speaker 1: the black turtleneck and the sneakers and the jeans, and
18:12
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wearh anything else. That's great because he
18:15
Speaker 1: never ever, ever, ever has to be leaning his I mean,
18:19
Speaker 1: I personally like to change up my outfit. But that's
18:22
Speaker 1: just one of the things you can be doing. Okay,
18:24
Speaker 1: People that meal prep in general, that's a really good
18:28
Speaker 1: way of reducing your decision making. And that's why a
18:31
Speaker 1: lot of people recommend meal prepping. Even if you have
18:34
Speaker 1: the time to cook at night. If you're someone that
18:37
Speaker 1: really struggles to adhere to an eating plan, and maybe
18:40
Speaker 1: you're a bodybuilder, or you're trying to achieve a certain
18:44
Speaker 1: physique or whatever it is you need to be eating
18:47
Speaker 1: a certain way, sometimes they recommend or often they recommend,
18:51
Speaker 1: to meal prep anyway, because the decision has been made
18:54
Speaker 1: for you. It's been made and it's there in the
18:56
Speaker 1: fridge to pull it out and heat it up. Because
18:58
Speaker 1: even if you had the time to cook, a lot
18:59
Speaker 1: of us don't think, well, I do have the time
19:00
Speaker 1: to cook, I'm now going to cook a beautiful, healthy
19:02
Speaker 1: A lot of us don't do that. Some of us
19:04
Speaker 1: good on you, but a lot of us don't. So
19:07
Speaker 1: morning routines are another big one, and that's why I
19:09
Speaker 1: always recommend having a morning routine, not because it's so
19:12
Speaker 1: crucial to your life, but because it actually helps you
19:15
Speaker 1: with that cognitive load and not reaching your mental fatigue
19:18
Speaker 1: earlier in the day than you need to be. And
19:21
Speaker 1: that's why a lot of people have checklists. I love
19:23
Speaker 1: a fucking check list. I actually have an episode on
19:26
Speaker 1: how to write the best to do list ever. I
19:28
Speaker 1: think that's actually the name of the episode, and I
19:30
Speaker 1: give you the perfect way of formulating a to do
19:33
Speaker 1: list where we talk about things that are urgent versus
19:36
Speaker 1: non urgent, things that can be done completely versus things
19:39
Speaker 1: that I can only put a little bit of time
19:40
Speaker 1: to and whatever, and you formulate. And this was done
19:42
Speaker 1: maybe like second half of last year, this episode, But
19:45
Speaker 1: just look up like checklist on my podcast page and
19:47
Speaker 1: you will come up. I'm gonna go on a break now,
19:49
Speaker 1: but before we go on the break, just a quick
19:51
Speaker 1: thank you to Honda and the Honda z A VI
19:52
Speaker 1: for bringing you this episode and for helping create comfort
19:55
Speaker 1: and convenience in your life. Yes, okay, so now I'm
20:02
Speaker 1: going to go into five different things that you can
20:05
Speaker 1: do to make this a little bit easier on yourself.
20:10
Speaker 1: So we can actually deal with this idea of having
20:13
Speaker 1: so many options for ourselves and what we're going to
20:15
Speaker 1: do about it, because I think it's really important to
20:18
Speaker 1: tackle this. It's going to help you in your recreational life,
20:22
Speaker 1: in your social life, and very importantly in your work life.
20:26
Speaker 1: And if you've someone that has goals or career goals
20:28
Speaker 1: outside of your actual job, then it's really really going
20:31
Speaker 1: to help you. Because if someone that's trying to build
20:33
Speaker 1: something for your career and it's separate to where you're
20:36
Speaker 1: making money, you have to be extremely time efficient on
20:39
Speaker 1: that thing because it's not your full time job, right
20:40
Speaker 1: you need to be so slick on how you're tackling
20:44
Speaker 1: this task or these tasks, and how you make decisions.
20:47
Speaker 1: It's going to make or break, okay. So the first
20:50
Speaker 1: thing that you need to start doing in your life
20:53
Speaker 1: is to automate repetitive choices. So this is where we
20:57
Speaker 1: talk about the morning routine. This is where we talk
21:00
Speaker 1: about what we're having for breakfast, and you could have
21:02
Speaker 1: certain things on rotation. So for example, one thing that
21:05
Speaker 1: I'm wanting to implement and I'm halfway there, kind of
21:09
Speaker 1: I've already started doing it, and I just need to
21:11
Speaker 1: lock in a little bit more. But it's I have
21:13
Speaker 1: two breakfasts that I rotate. I rotate between an omelet
21:16
Speaker 1: with fucking everything in it or a banana and protein smoothie. Okay,
21:21
Speaker 1: so depending on the mood that I'm in, I can have.
21:23
Speaker 1: Those are two options that I go to. The easy
21:25
Speaker 1: to do. It doesn't take that long to make, so
21:29
Speaker 1: that's kind of like an automated, repetitive choice. Of course,
21:33
Speaker 1: what you're going to wear is a really big one.
21:35
Speaker 1: If you're someone that works and you really lean into
21:37
Speaker 1: that capsual wardrobe thing, then you're going to make your
21:39
Speaker 1: life a whole lot easier because you're like, it's one one,
21:41
Speaker 1: one bank. I'm wearing this at least to work and
21:44
Speaker 1: for social things, I can get more creative and whatever,
21:46
Speaker 1: But to work, I need to stop fucking thinking about
21:49
Speaker 1: the shit because it's doing my head. In morning routines,
21:53
Speaker 1: let's say you've got a skin routine that you can
21:54
Speaker 1: bring it down right into a five minute thing and
21:57
Speaker 1: you can have your products lined up, so it's like
21:59
Speaker 1: bank bank bank bank, you get it all done. Whatever.
22:02
Speaker 1: You have a step by step thing of what you
22:04
Speaker 1: do in the morning, you wake up, you whatever, shower,
22:07
Speaker 1: wash your face or whatever, and then before you even
22:09
Speaker 1: have breakfast, you're taking the dog out for that walk.
22:11
Speaker 1: Then you come in, then it's breakfast, then it's this,
22:13
Speaker 1: then it's that. But you have it exactly the same
22:15
Speaker 1: every single morning, so you get it. You have down
22:17
Speaker 1: to a fine art. And while you're doing these things,
22:20
Speaker 1: this is the beauty of it. Instead of thinking fuck,
22:22
Speaker 1: what do I still have to do? What I have
22:23
Speaker 1: to do next, you're now thinking creatively. You're thinking, okay,
22:26
Speaker 1: while you're doing this processes, your mind is like, I've
22:29
Speaker 1: got this other great idea for my business, and I
22:31
Speaker 1: could also be implementing this and whatever. So already you're
22:34
Speaker 1: allowing your creative juices to flow because you've automated your morning.
22:38
Speaker 1: As an example, another option is to automate your evening
22:42
Speaker 1: or automate that first half hour from when you get
22:44
Speaker 1: home from work. There's many different pockets of time that
22:47
Speaker 1: you can use to kind of automate a bit of
22:49
Speaker 1: a routine or structure where that thing is happening whether
22:53
Speaker 1: you like it or not. So I might as well
22:54
Speaker 1: add a little bit of structure there, okay, So ask
22:56
Speaker 1: yourself how many things? And now your meal prepping do
22:58
Speaker 1: you want to cook or your dinners in it? Or
23:00
Speaker 1: are you too social for that shit you're saying, Shut up, Alexis,
23:03
Speaker 1: I'm out all the time eating dinner. I don't need that.
23:05
Speaker 1: So whatever number two, decide earlier. This is brilliant for
23:12
Speaker 1: major decisions and also for smaller decisions. Deciding earlier is
23:17
Speaker 1: one of the best things you can do to cut
23:20
Speaker 1: out that back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
23:22
Speaker 1: So let's talk about a big decision as an example.
23:25
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to use an example of mine. But
23:27
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be something that costs so much money,
23:29
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be something that requires trouble.
23:32
Speaker 1: But my best friend live and I we thought we
23:35
Speaker 1: need to do a trip overseas together. We've been best
23:38
Speaker 1: friends for so fucking long and we've never done an
23:41
Speaker 1: overseas trip just the two of us. So this was
23:43
Speaker 1: in January. We thought, why don't we go to Shri
23:47
Speaker 1: Lanka Because we've got a friend who's a friend of
23:49
Speaker 1: birth of ours who lives in Tri Lanka. We though,
23:50
Speaker 1: why don't we go to Shrilanka. We'll go to visit
23:52
Speaker 1: anow but then we can also go, you know, spend
23:54
Speaker 1: a few days by the beach whatever and just chill.
23:57
Speaker 1: And then we said, you know what, we have said
23:59
Speaker 1: this thousand times that we're going to go to Shri Lanka.
24:01
Speaker 1: This is not the first time we brought it up.
24:03
Speaker 1: We just need to book and then we can sort
24:04
Speaker 1: everything else out. So we sat down and it was
24:07
Speaker 1: either that day or the very next day. We sat
24:09
Speaker 1: down and we just booked the flights. That's what we did.
24:11
Speaker 1: We just booked the flights. So that's what I mean
24:13
Speaker 1: about deciding earlier once you've made the call, and if
24:16
Speaker 1: it's a calculated decision in the sense that it's not
24:18
Speaker 1: some like, oh, I'd love to study journalism without actually
24:22
Speaker 1: letting it sit for a little bit and think is
24:24
Speaker 1: journalism something I want? Or did I just watch a
24:26
Speaker 1: really great journalist journalistic interview and then you like sign
24:30
Speaker 1: uping and whatever. Okay, certain things you need to sit
24:33
Speaker 1: on for a little bit, but there are other things
24:35
Speaker 1: that you're like, no, I've thought about this a few times.
24:37
Speaker 1: Now that I'm here, I've got the thing. I can
24:38
Speaker 1: book it now. The beauty of having booked Sri Lanka
24:42
Speaker 1: when we did is that the question of us going
24:45
Speaker 1: or not never had to be asked again. It was done.
24:47
Speaker 1: What's done is fucking done, So then it's easy. Okay,
24:52
Speaker 1: now we just have to talk about accommodation and whatever.
24:55
Speaker 1: But that big marker has been done. So what are
24:57
Speaker 1: other things that you can do in your life? I
24:59
Speaker 1: did the same with my degree. I thought, I need
25:02
Speaker 1: to apply. I don't even know if I have enough
25:05
Speaker 1: credit or whatever to get into my master's. I just
25:07
Speaker 1: have to put myself forward and apply. So I did that,
25:10
Speaker 1: and until I got the response back, I wasn't going
25:12
Speaker 1: to know what I was doing with my life anyway.
25:14
Speaker 1: So I made that decision earlier. This can work for.
25:19
Speaker 1: It could work for Let's say you're going to a
25:22
Speaker 1: restaurant that someone's recommended, and then your friend says, oh
25:25
Speaker 1: my god, but if you go to that restaurant, you
25:27
Speaker 1: have to try this whatever it is the best thing
25:30
Speaker 1: on the men. You highly recommend it to change my life.
25:32
Speaker 1: You have to try it. That's something that you can
25:34
Speaker 1: be like, all right, guys, let's go to this restaurant.
25:35
Speaker 1: I already know what I'm trying. I've been told this
25:37
Speaker 1: is what I have to try. I'm very excited. I'm
25:39
Speaker 1: trying it. You get to the restaurant, you're really excited
25:41
Speaker 1: for this experience that you're gonna have because you've decided earlier.
25:43
Speaker 1: There's just little things like that. Think about how many
25:46
Speaker 1: times you could implement something like that in your day
25:48
Speaker 1: where you just make a decision, you make the call,
25:51
Speaker 1: and then you just follow through. Same as like booking
25:53
Speaker 1: an appointment. The amount of times I procrastinate on book
25:55
Speaker 1: an appointment because I think will I be able to slot it?
25:58
Speaker 1: And will I not? If my calendar is free that day,
26:00
Speaker 1: I will have to slot everything else around that thing.
26:03
Speaker 1: Book the fucking appointment. Okay, so important. The next one
26:07
Speaker 1: is create some rules for yourself. You need to have
26:12
Speaker 1: deadlines and time limits. So a perfect example of this
26:17
Speaker 1: is if you are firstly, let's use the menu thing
26:21
Speaker 1: when you're at a restaurant. If I'm at a restaurant
26:24
Speaker 1: and someone hands me a menu, and if the menu
26:26
Speaker 1: is pages and pages and pages long, I'm not going
26:28
Speaker 1: to go through every single inge, every single thing on
26:31
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm going to say, Well, if there's let's
26:33
Speaker 1: say it's like a Thai restaurant and they often have
26:34
Speaker 1: heaps of things before even opening it, I'm gonna say,
26:37
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have a curry. I need to call it.
26:39
Speaker 1: I'm either gonna have a curry or a stir fry whatever.
26:41
Speaker 1: And then once I know the bulk of it, then
26:43
Speaker 1: I go to that page and I look, I'm not
26:45
Speaker 1: gonna start Oh but maybe, but this too bad. If
26:48
Speaker 1: I've missed out on the best meal of my life
26:49
Speaker 1: that's on another page, I'll never know about it. But
26:51
Speaker 1: I need to commit. And if I start arming and
26:54
Speaker 1: ring and uming and ring, then I'm gonna have food envy.
26:56
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not know so many people. The people that
26:59
Speaker 1: take the longest to order at a restaurant are the
27:00
Speaker 1: ones that end up having the food envy because they
27:02
Speaker 1: gave themselves too much time to go back and forth.
27:05
Speaker 1: Whereas I normally not always, but i'd say ninety percent
27:07
Speaker 1: of the time. If we're gonna order something, I'll make
27:09
Speaker 1: the decision within about three minutes. I'm like done, and
27:11
Speaker 1: I'll close the menu and I'll put it aside. I
27:12
Speaker 1: don't want to look at that menu after I've made
27:14
Speaker 1: my decision. Why, Okay, same goes for when you're trying
27:18
Speaker 1: to decide on what to watch on a streaming service,
27:19
Speaker 1: set yourself a time limit, say I'm gonna give myself
27:22
Speaker 1: five minutes max. Or a game that you can play
27:26
Speaker 1: with your partner. And this is a really good way
27:28
Speaker 1: of like eliminating what you don't want to watch. Is
27:30
Speaker 1: I'll say, okay, three down and five across, So you
27:33
Speaker 1: have to score three columns down and scroll five across
27:35
Speaker 1: and say we're gonna watch that thing. And if you're like, no,
27:37
Speaker 1: I'm not in the mood to watch that, why don't
27:39
Speaker 1: you want to watch it? Is it because it's too
27:41
Speaker 1: dark and intense for the mood that you're in and
27:44
Speaker 1: you just want something lighthearted? Great, Well it's answered question. Okay,
27:46
Speaker 1: now I need either comedy or rom com or a
27:48
Speaker 1: lighthearted documentary. Okay, good, I've narrow that down. Now, out
27:51
Speaker 1: of those three, which one and then you can narrow
27:54
Speaker 1: it down that way. But you give yourself a time
27:56
Speaker 1: limit to make the decision. And if you haven't decided,
27:59
Speaker 1: then you've got watch something that's recommended for you at
28:01
Speaker 1: the top of the page, and you've got to commit.
28:03
Speaker 1: The recommended things are a good way to kind of
28:06
Speaker 1: force you into like, well, it's this or nothing. Okay,
28:08
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when we have free to AIRTV.
28:10
Speaker 1: You've really got just a handful of channels to choose from,
28:13
Speaker 1: and we're often happier because of it. Okay. The next
28:16
Speaker 1: one is to reduce your input. Okay, so when we
28:21
Speaker 1: talk about reducing input, I'm thinking, if I'm going to
28:24
Speaker 1: watch something, the worst thing I can do, going back
28:27
Speaker 1: to the analogy of streaming, is to go from one
28:29
Speaker 1: service to another, to another, to another to another, commit
28:31
Speaker 1: to one. I need to think of one better yet,
28:35
Speaker 1: is when you're with your friends, just say, does anyone
28:37
Speaker 1: have any recommendations to watch? You? Guys know what I like?
28:39
Speaker 1: Give me your recommendations. That is one of the best
28:42
Speaker 1: things you can do someone's recommend This is why word
28:44
Speaker 1: of mouth advertising is by far the best thing, because
28:46
Speaker 1: people don't want to be trawling through things. People want
28:48
Speaker 1: to be told what's good, especially from people whose opinion
28:51
Speaker 1: they trust. That's the beauty. This is why influencer I
28:55
Speaker 1: mean not that you know your influences, but this is
28:56
Speaker 1: why it blew up in the first place, because people
28:58
Speaker 1: had this parasocial relationship with influencers and they're like, well,
29:01
Speaker 1: I trust it. You have to say more than just
29:02
Speaker 1: a billboard, so I am going to go buy that thing.
29:04
Speaker 1: That's why it blew up in the first place. So
29:06
Speaker 1: use your friends for recommendations. Constantly say guys, and I
29:11
Speaker 1: do this all the time with my friends and family.
29:13
Speaker 1: I'm like, I've run out of shows to watch, and
29:15
Speaker 1: I don't know what's good or what's not. Tell me,
29:17
Speaker 1: and then people throw their recommendations at me. And I
29:19
Speaker 1: know which people to listen to more than the others
29:21
Speaker 1: based on how much our taste aligns on television or documentaries.
29:24
Speaker 1: So I'll be like, okay, well we always align with
29:26
Speaker 1: that thing. I'm just going to watch that thing, okay,
29:28
Speaker 1: And that works I'd say ninety five percent of the
29:31
Speaker 1: time for me a good recommendation. So reducing input is
29:35
Speaker 1: put your feelers out there for recommendations. Don't think more
29:38
Speaker 1: is more. More is actually less, like our friend BARRS.
29:43
Speaker 1: Schwartz says in his book. And then lastly is always
29:48
Speaker 1: bring it back to ultimately what matters. Sometimes we get
29:52
Speaker 1: tied up in the weeds of all this unnecessary shit.
29:55
Speaker 1: Let's say, for example, this is I'm going to use
29:58
Speaker 1: work as an example when I there are many times,
30:03
Speaker 1: especially early on in the days of me doing my
30:05
Speaker 1: podcast and my website and this and that that I
30:07
Speaker 1: could spend and I'm not exaggerating here, an entire day,
30:11
Speaker 1: sometimes an entire two days working on the look of
30:15
Speaker 1: the website or the look of this and the font
30:19
Speaker 1: and eats up your day, and I'll be exhausted by
30:22
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and I'm like, well,
30:23
Speaker 1: I was being productive. I mean, I was working the
30:25
Speaker 1: whole day, and I was sat on my fucking chair
30:27
Speaker 1: the whole day. And at no point was I getting
30:29
Speaker 1: distracted by this or that. I was like focusing, But really,
30:31
Speaker 1: did it matter? Has it actually helped my podcast? Ultimately?
30:35
Speaker 1: The font of this one fucking thing on my frie yes,
30:37
Speaker 1: and branding matters, and all these things matter, But how
30:40
Speaker 1: much are you weighing on different things. I'm then exhausted
30:43
Speaker 1: to the extent that my decision making quota has gone
30:45
Speaker 1: out the window because I've been making all these tiny, tiny, tiny,
30:48
Speaker 1: relatively insignificant decisions from my perspective and from what I'm
30:52
Speaker 1: trying to achieve. And then how much effort do I
30:55
Speaker 1: have or how much energy do I have to put
30:57
Speaker 1: into planning a podcast episode for the next day? None? Right,
31:00
Speaker 1: so either my output's going to be dogshit, or I've
31:01
Speaker 1: got to wait the next day and cram more into
31:03
Speaker 1: the next day because I've got to plan that podcast
31:04
Speaker 1: the next day. So there's an example. If I'm working
31:07
Speaker 1: on something, i need to work on the thing that
31:10
Speaker 1: requires the most creative output at the start of the day.
31:13
Speaker 1: So that's podcast planning, writing, anything creative, and anything that's
31:17
Speaker 1: going to require nitty gritty stuff but that doesn't require
31:19
Speaker 1: too much creativity or too many big decision making skills,
31:22
Speaker 1: they're going to go later on in the day. So
31:25
Speaker 1: know how to prioritize the most important tasks that require
31:28
Speaker 1: the cream of the crop of attention and focus and
31:32
Speaker 1: cognitive abilities start at the top of the day. Unless
31:35
Speaker 1: you're someone that really shines at night in how you work.
31:38
Speaker 1: A lot of people are that way. They're just more
31:41
Speaker 1: night hours than they work better. But that's not after
31:43
Speaker 1: working all day long. Those people are likely people that
31:46
Speaker 1: maybe have a pocket of work during the day, but
31:47
Speaker 1: then they have a few hours off whether they're doing
31:49
Speaker 1: something else, working out, sleeping, whatever, and then they have
31:52
Speaker 1: their like their resurrection in the evening as well. But again,
31:57
Speaker 1: find the pockets of time where you shine the most,
31:59
Speaker 1: and that is where you're doing most of the work,
32:01
Speaker 1: and you can't roll into that time. Even if you're
32:03
Speaker 1: a night out after a whole day of cognitive fatigue,
32:06
Speaker 1: you're still not going to perform as well as you could.
32:09
Speaker 1: So those are your five practical takeaways. So we've got
32:13
Speaker 1: the automate repetitive choices we have. Decide earlier, whenever possible,
32:17
Speaker 1: lock that fucking thing in, and then it's done. You
32:20
Speaker 1: only make the decision once, and you're going on that
32:22
Speaker 1: trip book to flight, even if it's in a year's
32:24
Speaker 1: time book the flight, and then things just start falling
32:27
Speaker 1: into place. Number three. Create rules around yourself. Have those
32:31
Speaker 1: personal rules that you have to adhere by. Whether it's
32:33
Speaker 1: a time limit or whether it's'm only allowed to read
32:35
Speaker 1: one of these pages on the menu, or whatever it is.
32:38
Speaker 1: When it comes to outfits, I'm only going to give
32:39
Speaker 1: myself ten minutes to create this outfit, or I'm only
32:43
Speaker 1: allowed to have three breakfast options so I don't keep
32:46
Speaker 1: wasting time in the kitchen, whatever it is. Look at
32:49
Speaker 1: where you waste the most time and make those rules.
32:51
Speaker 1: Number four. Reduce your input. This is where you can
32:53
Speaker 1: start asking for recommendations instead of trawling through a thousand
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Speaker 1: streaming services and number five, focus on what matters, bring
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Speaker 1: the most important, cognitively heavy work at the top of
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Speaker 1: the list, and then do the details later. Okay, hopefully
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Speaker 1: that helped you with your decision making. You're going to
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Speaker 1: see that this actually really does make you feel a
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Speaker 1: lot happier and calmer. You're going to have less anxiety,
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Speaker 1: and most importantly, you're actually going to have less regret
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Speaker 1: about what could have been or had you made the
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Speaker 1: wrong decision. I'm not sure. I'm not here nor there
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Speaker 1: in anything, whether it's dating apps, food decisions, career, streaming services, anything,
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Speaker 1: You're going to feel better. Okay. So I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to say really big thank you to all of you
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Speaker 1: for listening, and of course to the sponsors of today's episode,
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Speaker 1: which is Honda for bringing this episode to life. So
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Speaker 1: thank you Honda. Honda's z ave design philosophy around comfort
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Speaker 1: and convenience really does help us reduce unnecessary complexities in
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Speaker 1: our life, which is what this whole episode is all about.
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Speaker 1: So thank you Honda, and thank you everyone for tuning
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Speaker 1: in and listening. I really hope you are able to
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Speaker 1: take something out of that and apply it to your
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Speaker 1: life as soon as possible you can do. I reckon
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Speaker 1: you could do all of those this week to some capacity.
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Speaker 1: That is all for today. And if you have a
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Speaker 1: really smart way of any of those five points that
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Speaker 1: I gave you, if it's like a really cool hack
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Speaker 1: to share with people, then just put it in the comments.
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Speaker 1: If you listen on Spotify, you can add a comment
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, guys, here's a really good hack. This
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Speaker 1: is what I do to make decisions a whole lot faster,
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Speaker 1: and I'm always happy with the decision I make. Bang,
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Speaker 1: this is what I do. Then people can read it
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Speaker 1: and be inspired by your ideas. Anyway, that is all
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Speaker 1: for today's episode. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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Speaker 1: As always, please remember be kind to yourself, be kind
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Speaker 1: to your brain, don't take shit from anyone, and especially
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Speaker 1: don't take shit from yourself. Dunk it.