Protect Your Best Thinking

Use your freshest judgment on high-stakes choices: decide important things early, eat before deciding, automate trivial recurring choices, and take real breaks before the next hard call.

Decision quality can slip before you notice it, especially when you are tired, hungry, stressed, or overloaded. Because the mechanism is debated, do not treat it as a simple willpower tank; treat it as a practical reason to protect your best thinking.