Batch The Boring Stuff

The easiest defense is to delete decisions you never needed to make. What to wear? Pick a uniform. Breakfast? Same thing daily. Where to sit and work? Same seat. This is not rigid discipline - it is protecting attention for what counts.

Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg both publicly described repeat outfits as a way to reduce trivial daily choices. Every low-value choice you put on autopilot leaves more attention for the choices that actually shape your life.

Most people spend their best thinking on things that change nothing - and reach the real decisions already drained.