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Decision Overload – After 19 Million Decisions, Interrogation

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The average American adult faces 35,000 decisions every day. Whoa! It is called decision fatigue, and when people get too much, they default to no, or doing nothing. I would also add, speaking from personal experience, that the older I get the less time and fewer decisions I want to make. Good enough is good enough for my choices. You best believe this topic has a lot to do with business (i.e. efficiency program) success or not success. I’m a late adopter of new software. I was late to Firefox, and then late to Chrome. In fact, the reason I…
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No Free Lunch

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A few years ago, I took my beloved Acura to the tire store for new tires.  As I was sitting on their crappy molded plastic chairs at a Formica table working away on my laptop, a cheesy 20-something sales guy approached me and asked if I would like a free alignment.  “I don’t have a problem.”  “But it’s free.  No obligation”, he goes on.  “Ah what heck, go ahead.”  He returned a few minutes later as I’m hammering away on my laptop and he says my wheels should be aligned because…whatever.  I put on a scrunchy-face look and decide that…
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