"“You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions.
I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.”
He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions.
It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself.
You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.” The self-discipline he believes is required to do the job well
comes at a high price. “You can’t wander around,” he said. “It’s much harder to be surprised.
You don’t have those moments of serendipity."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/10/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama
http://www.geistundgegenwart.de/2013/01/entscheidungen-richtig-treffen.html#more
Anm. ed.iiQii.de: Aufmerksamkeits-Ökonomie. Hinten weit in der Türkei liegt das Paradies, wenn wir,
vor neurobiologischer Erschöpfung bei den Alltagsentscheidungen,
je dort ankommen.