The Joy of Missing Out by Tonya Dalton

Author:Tonya Dalton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2019-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

TAKE THE THINKING OUT OF IT

Your brain takes up a mere 2 percent2 of your body mass but consumes an astonishing 20 percent of your calories each day. Your brain is a calorie-burning machine, so it loves to conserve energy when it can. Then it can apply big effort to the important items you want to tackle, like your goals.

Your brain, just like your body, has a limited amount of calories, and when your brain is working hard making decisions, it wears itself out. Decision fatigue sets in.

That moment at the end of the day when you feel brain-dead? That feeling is real—your brain is literally running out of calories and just can’t function. It’s not about willpower or discipline. Your brain simply has no gas left in the tank and no real desire to keep making good choices.

Most times we aren’t even aware we are low on mental energy, and our brain continues working but starts to look for shortcuts. It does this in two different ways:

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