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Summary: Choosing what to wear has a willpower cost, since willpower is depleted by the choices we make during a day. Therefore, you should reduce the number of
by erokar 10y ago
Summary: Choosing what to wear has a willpower cost, since willpower is depleted by the choices we make during a day. Therefore, you should reduce the number of unimportant choices, like what to eat and what clothes to wear focus on decisions that make an impact.
My take on this:
1. Eating the same meal over and over again and wearing the same clothes every day is a sad and overly utilitarian way to live your life. Eating can be sensual and joyful, picking clothes can be expressive, fun and make you feel good. And in fact you need not miss out on these joys of life to spend time deciding JS framwork to use for your next starup or whatever, because:
2. The theory of willpower/ego depletion is probably wrong and cannot be reproduced (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...).