Thursday, August 13, 2015

How the snooze button can make you more productive


Making decisions is one of the most important traits of any leader and is something I have to deal with on a day to day basis as CEO of Process Street. The science behind why decisions are important is explained in Science says you should do your most important work first thing in the morning by Drake Baer. While we don t always realize it, as we breeze (or slog) through our working days, we make countless decisions. Which email should I reply to first? Should I take care of this now or after lunch? The reason that we get tired at around 3pm isn t just because our body is diverting energy from the brain to the stomach as it tries to digest your lunch, but also because we have decision fatigue. We take the path of least resistance. Things we would usually have given thought to, we dismiss. Judges are well documented when it comes to decision fatigue, and since our decisions might not be as impactful or obvious as a choice to send someone to prison for life, it s still a real proble
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