By evening, choosing between pasta and salad can feel like a board meeting. This is often called decision fatigue: after making many choices, it becomes harder to compare options, hold on to priorities and reject the easiest answer.
In this state, people are more likely to postpone a decision, act impulsively or select whatever is familiar. Not because they have suddenly lost all willpower, but because their attention is overloaded.
It can help to remove unimportant forks in the road in advance: keep a few standard breakfast options, make a shopping list, group similar tasks and avoid making genuinely important decisions at the point of total exhaustion.
Sometimes freedom is not a hundred possibilities. Sometimes freedom is two good options and the chance to finally eat.
The stars speak. You decide.