Understanding the Dangers of "Ego-Depletion"

Understanding the Dangers of "Ego-Depletion"

(Image: Someecards) This is a guest post by Dan Ariely, James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. I’ve always suspected that we start each day with a limited number of decision-making points that, once depleted, leave us cognitively impaired. This is part of the reason that automating minutiae, adopting rituals, …