one trick to avoid exhaustion from too many choices: short circuit when you get a satisfactory outcome, even if it's not optimal. e.g., ordering food at a resta

one trick to avoid exhaustion from too many choices: short circuit when you get a satisfactory outcome, even if it's not optimal. e.g., ordering food at a restaurant or watching tv, if i find a menu item or a program that's good enough and the outcome is not too important to me (those are the cases you should invest extra mental energy to find optimal solutions), i stop scanning there. the general notion is that your mental energy is valuable currency and should be invested in ways that give you good return.