The relationship between minimalism and decision fatigue.

 

This time, I would like to talk about something interesting; the reason why minimalism and decision fatigue are closely related.

If you’re looking for a simple and relaxing life, understanding the relationship between minimalism and decision fatigue may help you.

Beautiful scenery from Stockholm 

1. Minimalism helps you to think less

Let’s start by understanding the concept of minimalism.

Minimalism is all about focusing.

Many people misunderstand that minimalism is decreasing the number of things that they have, but the truth is the minimum is the idea of knowing what is important and also conducting the action that is essential to focus on what you really want to do.

Through the process, you will eventually decrease the number of things you have, but this is actually just one of the processes.

Focusing is to reduce something you don't need so when you start focusing on something important, then you would naturally think about what not to do or what not to have.

"The fewer objects, the less energy to think."

If you have fewer objects, you have to think less about what to have, what to wear, or even what to throw away and this is the reason why minimalism will help you to avoid decision fatigue.

You simply do not have a reason to get fatigued if there is nothing to think about.

2. Minimalism helps you to know yourself

How the desk of an extreme minimalist looks like

This is my personal experience, and I can definitely say that minimalism will help you to know yourself.

Throughout the process of decreasing the things that you have, or in an extreme case, decreasing the contacts with the people you don’t really want to, you will find what is important for you and at the same time, thanks to this process, you will know more about yourself than before.

In my case, I believed in myself that I love fashion so much that I have to have various types of clothes.

When I was a university student, I once had more than 200 clothes with me which was totally insane.

However throughout the process of selling and donating most of the clothes that I had, I realised that it’s not about the clothes amount, but it’s about whether I look stylish in the way that I want or not.

Right now, I only have less than 10 outfits including a heavy winter jacket and a pair of room wear.

What I wanted to tell you from this story is that knowing what is important for you which will help you to avoid waste such as impossible shopping.

Of course, impulsive shopping takes your energy to think about what to buy even though you have not planned to buy.

3. Minimalism helps you to clean your room less

Cleaning your room will take so much energy from you even though it's just cleaning!!!

When you clean your room, you would probably think ”Am I going to throw this away or am I going to keep this?” type of question many times.

If the room is so dirty, it means there are lots of things to organise and every time you organise things, you will think about where to put those things or whether you want to throw them away or not; Decision Fatigue

This is absolutely a waste of decision energy, and this type of cleaning habit is a typical cause of decision fatigue.

You’ll get physically tired from cleaning because you move a lot, and you will also get psychologically tired because you have had huge decision fatigue.

If you are a minimalist who strictly follows the idea of minimalism, you will never experience this.

This is my bed. This is it.

What I have to do every time I wake up is to do the bed-making and check the socks which I washed the previous night whether it’s completely dried or not.

Seriously there are no objects in my room except for the desk and the bed, so if you ask me to clean my room there’s nothing to clean.

Another shot of my room. Drying a towel I used the previous day

When I wake up in the morning, I drink water with a calm mind and slowly start preparing the coffee.

Yes, this is a very extremely minimalist habit but if you are sick of living in a house with tons of objects, then you would probably want to take some tips out of my life tips.

"The fewer objects, the less energy to think."

Thanks for reading and hope this article is something informative to you.