> You\u2019ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to pare down decisions. I don\u2019t want to make decisions about what I\u2019m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.\u201d He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one\u2019s ability to make further decisions. It\u2019s why shopping is so exhausting. \u201cYou need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can\u2019t be going through the day distracted by trivia.” – [Barack Obama, via Michael Lewis](http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
> You\u2019ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to pare down decisions. I don\u2019t want to make decisions about what I\u2019m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.\u201d He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one\u2019s ability to make…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,378,380],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-psychology-2","category-simplicity","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1k1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}