Dr. Daniel Crosby

It shows you that the way you get compensated matters.

And when you get compensated for clicks and eyeballs,

The measured uncertain message of a doctor or an economist is not as sexy as whatever doomsday scenario is being predicted.

So understand how they make money, question the tone, and then just make sure they have the right pedigree to be opining on this in the first place.

Because it's not always the case.

I turned on the financial news the other day and they had Gene Simmons from the band Kiss talking about cryptocurrency.

And it's like, what business does some rock star have to tell me about the blockchain, right?

Like, turn it off, turn it off.

Yeah, so for those who want to get as nerdy as I was on my show, you can go check out a book called The Paradox of Choice that is all about this, how more choices actually are worse for us, and they sort of immobilize us and lead us to make worse decisions.

So The Paradox of Choice is a great book to check out if you're super interested in this.

If you want the highlight reel, I would give you the following tips.

First, realize that inaction is a form of decision.

I think oftentimes we think, well, I don't want to decide, so I just won't decide.

And we feel that sort of inaction or saying stagnant or accepting the status quo is a form of indecision.

It's actually a decision unto itself.

So I think first we have to accept that there's no such thing as not making a decision.

The second thing that I think we can do is minimize the unimportant decisions in our lives.

Research suggests that we make 35,000 decisions per day.

So that puts it at something like 13 million decisions per year.

There's no way that you can make 13 million decisions a year and have them all be