The Brain is Like a Muscle

Scientific American ran a very interesting article about the capacity of the brain to make decisions.  The author, On Amir, postulates that the brain has a limited amount of bandwidth to make decisions.  If you spend considerable time on one decision, even mundane type decisions, you may actually exhaust your brain and hinder making other decisions.  For instance, all that time spent debating with co-workers where to go for lunch, and then what to order once there, may in fact severely detract from your ability to make tough decisions once you get back to the office.  He’s a link so you can read the whole article.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making