While the term decision fatigue is specifically designed to be understood in the day-to-day, it can also be applied to bigger, more life-altering decisions. When you come to a stage in your life (most likely your twenties or thirties) where you have to make big decision after big decision — where to live, what career to pursue, who to date, who to be — this can set in a deeper, more intense kind of fatigue. Because of this mental exhaustion, we might find ourselves procrastinating, shirking responsibility, and making some terrible choices occasionally because we just can’t quite handle all the pressure. If you also get the sense that your decisions, big or small, are saying something about you as a person, this can make you more vulnerable to decision fatigue as the stakes feel so much higher.
