Decisions, Decisions

[ellenkushner]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html


And much is explained - including why, especially when I'm shopping, I get a sort of greyish look and say, "I have to eat something."

The original was in the NYTimes Sunday Magazine of 8/21, if you've still got that lying around:

Delia adds: "And that's why I have the same thing for breakfast every day. Your dad does it, too." (He also took a sardine sandwich to lunch - bones & all - at the lab every day for years. He just retired at the age of 82, and is devoting himself to his annual paper at the Bibliophile Club . . . and travel . . . and cataloguing his print collection . . . and endlesslessly researching every decision on which brand of any electronics to buy. Have another sandwich, dad!)

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, thus.

Except when I have passionfruit pineapple lilikoi scones in front of me for possible purchse. No decision fatigue then.

[regicidaldwarf.livejournal.com]

I read that article about a week or so ago and had a moment of "Well of course I knew that, I just didn't know I knew that!" This is probably why malls have food courts, now that I think about it. And why I am unable to do anything productive after work and before dinner.

I've started keeping a granola bar in my purse, just for emergencies.