Here’s the quiet pattern I see in senior leaders under sustained pressure…decision quality drops long before motivation does. Not because people don’t care, but because their nervous system is overloaded. 🧠Our brains have a limited capacity for self-regulation and decision-making across the day. ❌Prolonged cognitive demand increases mental fatigue, reducing accuracy, impulse control, and judgement ❌This effect is linked to changes in prefrontal cortex activity and rising str

We often assume that better decisions come from more effort…More hours…More thinking…More grit. In reality, sustained decision quality depends far more on recovery  than effort. Here’s the reframe 👇 Your brain is a biological system, not a spreadsheet…and like any system, it degrades under continuous load. 🪫 The science is very clear. 🧪 What the research shows Decision-making draws heavily on the prefrontal cortex. This region is highly sensitive to fatigue, stress and sle