Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?
The opening line to this piece got way more complicated than I anticipated.
I wanted to quote a statistic on the number of decisions individuals make a day, so, of course, I googled it, and the number that came up was 35,000.
That seemed a bit high. I went a little further down the search results and there was a link to a discussion about that number. Hello Google rabbit hole, I’ve come to visit you. To summarize: The accuracy of that stat is contested; no one can find the source for it.
Still, even if it’s off by ten or twenty thousand, that’s a lot of decisions each day. Some are deliberate, others made almost by default. And then there’s the insecurity about the decisions!
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