{"id":90409,"date":"2023-01-28T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=90409"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T19:54:59","slug":"why-is-it-hard-to-make-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-is-it-hard-to-make-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is It Hard to Make Decisions? Information Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why is it hard to make decisions? Why is it harder now than it&#8217;s ever been?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modern world overwhelms us, and this hampers our ability to make decisions.&nbsp;Our brains expend a lot of energy on decisions that must be made\u2014even ones that aren&#8217;t important. That energy drain makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a> difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to understand why it&#8217;s hard to make decisions, especially these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-decision-making-information-overload\">Decision-Making &amp; Information Overload<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is it hard to make decisions? Daniel Levitin explains that our brains can process only a limited amount of information at once. However, <strong>the modern world constantly exposes us to more information than our brains are capable of processing.<\/strong> There are three reasons for this. First, due to globalization, we\u2019re exposed to more news than ever before. Second, technology grows so quickly that we\u2019re forced to regularly learn new information to keep up. Third, technology has allowed companies to offload tasks to their customers. For example, many restaurants ask that customers\u2014not waiters\u2014tap in their orders on their phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Many people are exposed to massive amounts of information due to social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikevorhaus\/2020\/06\/24\/people-increasingly-turn-to-social-media-for-news\/?sh=3fc128513bcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Younger generations get most of their news from social media<\/a>, which allows them <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/digital-news-report\/2021\/how-and-why-do-consumers-access-news-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">access to information that mainstream news may not cover<\/a>\u2014even in a globalized world. Additionally, people learn how to use new social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/internet-platform\/\">media platforms<\/a> constantly; for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessofapps.com\/data\/tik-tok-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok became the world\u2019s most popular social media platform in just two years<\/a>. And although most people use social media for recreational purposes, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3944845\/shadow-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">companies profit from their activities<\/a> by selling their data (and sometimes the posts they create), allowing social media companies to offload the task of content creation onto consumers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This increase in stimuli hampers our ability to make decisions. Levitin explains that, when we\u2019re bombarded by information, we must make decisions <em>all <\/em>the time, which is tiring. At a minimum, we must decide whether we\u2019ll engage with this information. Most of these decisions are unimportant\u2014like whether to check a phone alert or ignore it and keep working. However, your brain can decide on only a limited number of things per day, and it doesn\u2019t distinguish between important and unimportant ones. Moreover, it spends the same amount of energy on every decision, no matter how big or small. So, if you\u2019ve already reached your limit, you can\u2019t make any more decisions\u2014even if that next decision is the most important one that day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: How can you tell if you\u2019ve made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/too-many-choices\/\">too many decisions<\/a>? Contrary to Levitin\u2019s argument that you\u2019ll lose the ability to make any decisions when you\u2019re exhausted, some experts suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/delivering-care\/public-health\/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-decision-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you may simply try to save your energy<\/a> by putting off the decision, waffling, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/poor-impulse-control\/\">acting on impulse<\/a>. So if you have an important decision, consider making it early in the day. The fewer decisions you\u2019ve made, the more cognitive energy you have available to make a difficult decision\u2014such as choosing which house to buy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it hard to make decisions? Why is it harder now than it&#8217;s ever been? The modern world overwhelms us, and this hampers our ability to make decisions.&nbsp;Our brains expend a lot of energy on decisions that must be made\u2014even ones that aren&#8217;t important. That energy drain makes decision-making difficult. Read more to understand why it&#8217;s hard to make decisions, especially these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":90415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[882],"class_list":["post-90409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-society","tag-the-organized-mind","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Is It Hard to Make Decisions? 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