decision stress

I hate decisions. Especially about the small stuff. And about the important stuff. Especially, if I have to make them.

For example, take, eating out. the euphoria about not having to do the dishes vanishes in a few milliseconds - when you start trying to decide where you wanna go. Very soon you start thinking, let's just eat the left-overs (and throw away the dishes)

When i was single, a few of us used to go out for dinner every night. We used to go the same place and eat the same stuff, every single night. It made perfect sense then, it makes perfect sense now!

I have been reading the rather old and out-of-fashion book "Future Shock". Some of the stuff in there is still relevant. The section about decision stress in particular.

From “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler

…life is a blend of programmed and non-programmed decisions. Rational behavior always includes an intricate combination of routinization and creativity. Routine is essential… because it frees creative energies for dealing with the more baffling array of new problems for which routinization is an irrational approach.

When we are unable to programme much of our lives, we suffer.“There is no more miserable person than one for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the beginning of every bit of work are subjects of deliberation.” For unless we can extensively programme our behavior, we waste tremendous amounts of information processing capacity on trivia.

Amen.

Now, I cant decide if this post should end here, or I should say something clever to close. Boss walks by: decision made simple ;)