Insight: The internet and digital distractions shift our attention between things, creating an attention residue, which reduces cognitive performance on subsequent tasks.
Insight: What we do before creative work impacts our performance significantly.
Definition: Daily decisions reduce our willpower, where avoiding distractions becomes harder and harder.
Reference: "The link between willpower and decision making works both ways: Decision-making depletes your willpower, and once your willpower is depleted, you're less able to make fewer decisions." - Roy Baumeister
Insight: Our willpower is limited.
Insight: Each decision we make reduces our willpower.
Insight: Rituals help reduce decision fatigue. Rituals are the result of decisions already made, that make eliminate future decision making.
Insight: When we don't have to focus on the small things, we leave room to focus on what matters.
Principle: Make a list of all decisions in the first hour of the day. Figure out how to ritualise them.
