The Decision Fatigue Recognition Principle
Decision quality degrades across consecutive choices as cognitive resources deplete. The decision fatigue recognition principle holds that professionals should recognize when they are approaching or exceeding their decision-making capacity and adjust accordingly—deferring non-urgent decisions, simplifying where possible, or acknowledging that additional scrutiny may be needed for decisions made while depleted.
Fatigue operates beneath conscious awareness. The professional experiencing decision fatigue may not notice the shortcuts their thinking is taking, the alternatives they are overlooking, or the rigor they are abandoning. The first capacity lost to fatigue is the capacity to recognize that fatigue is present.
Recognizing decision fatigue requires monitoring one's decision load and its effects. For those managing demanding professional development strategies, fatigue recognition prevents the costly errors that depleted cognition produces. Our recognition framework provides monitoring and adjustment approaches.
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