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Make a decent decision when you're too depleted to think well — a low-energy protocol that protects you from bad tired-brain choices. Use when asked I'm too tired to decide, help me choose I'm exhausted, I can't think straight right now, or should I even decide this now. Produces a first check on whether this decision can simply wait until you're rested, and if not, a minimal-effort path to a safe-enough choice (default to reversible, avoid the tired-brain traps, use a simple rule) — because decisions made depleted are predictably worse, and the best move is often not to make them now.

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# Decision When Tired

Tired brains make bad decisions — impulsive, pessimistic, or whatever's easiest — and then live with them. The best protocol when depleted is usually *don't decide yet*. This first checks whether the decision can wait; if it genuinely can't, it walks you to a safe-enough choice with minimal thinking: default to the reversible option, dodge the known tired-brain traps, and apply a simple rule rather than deep analysis you can't do right now.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The can-it-wait check** — the first and best question: does this actually need deciding now, or can it wait for a rested brain?
- **The tired-brain trap flags** — the predictable ways exhaustion distorts choices (impulse-buying, catastrophizing, picking the easy-not-right option, saying yes to make it stop)
- **The safe-enough path** — if it can't wait, a low-effort route to a reasonable choice (favor reversible, satisfice, use a rule)
- **A simple decision rule** — a heuristic to apply instead of analysis you don't have the energy for
- **A do-not-decide list** — the choices to explicitly defer until rested

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