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55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind

Inquiring Minds

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The Big Decisions Take Up as Many Neural Resources as the Big Ones

Each time you make a decision, even a tiny little one, like whether to drink from this glass or this glass, you're depleting a little bit of glucose. The solution there is to do the big ones earlier in the morning, save the little ones to the end of the day. You also have a great anecdote in your book about a precocious student of yours who was from a former Soviet Union country. Yes.

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