Path of Least Resistance

So it's not so much that it's like we're super lazy, but our brains are wired.

So I was having a look.

And when it talks about neuroscience, psychology, human behavior, it is like really clear that our brains want to use the least amount of brain energy it can because the body and the brain's job is that keep us alive primarily.

And then, you know, there's this descending order of priorities.

And our brain uses about 20% of our body's energy, which can I just say, if you are decluttering and making like 400, 500 decisions in a day, drink lots of water, fuel your body, because it is absolutely exhausting.

If you think about how much your brain is doing when it's making decisions that it's not used to, when it's doing all of these types of things, it's really important that you're not like making your brain work on empty decisions.

So that's just like, that's for free.

Eat well, drink lots of water when you're dehydrated because your brain is like making so many decisions.

And so because decision-making takes a lot of effort, our brain is super smart and well-designed and will want to find this path of least resistance.

And that's why all the habit coaches, that's why everyone talks about just create a habit and just keep going with it so that your brain doesn't have to make a decision every time.

And there's lots of ways we can talk about that.

I talked about that with Monica a few weeks ago when we talked about sticky habits and ways that you can use this kind of wanting the path of least resistance to your advantage.

What I want to talk about today is some of the practicalities of that and why our brain tries to go this path of least resistance.

You might see evidence of this in your home because it is easier for you to just walk in the door and dump your work bag, the paperwork, the mail, your jumper that you took off, anything, your keys, your phone, your charger on the kitchen bench than it is to put them away.

And so unless you can create a path of least resistance that is easier than that, Like your brain is just going to want to dump the things that it's like, I just need to get that done so I can move on to maybe doing readers with the kids or cooking a dinner or going on a date night or working a second job or whatever that looks like.

And so our brains are like quickest, shortest, what's the path? How is the least amount of resistance going to work for me? And so it's important to kind of understand that's how your brain works.

Otherwise, you might feel like you're constantly working against it, which is no fun at all.

We want to work with our brains because otherwise, again, so much more effort and so much more work.

and decisions create a mental load and so the mental load is like all those tabs that are open in your brain for some of us we have more open tabs than others i definitely have more open tabs in my brain than cal says he has in his he says he might have like four or five tabs open whereas i feel like i have 40 or 50 tabs open That might be my ADHD.

That might just be my personality.

That might be the mental load that I carry for our family and my business.

There's so many different things that contribute to that.

But having to make lots and lots of decisions adds to your mental load.

Because every decision you make, you have to open the tab.

You have to think about it.