How to avoid decision fatigue

Over the years, I have taught a lot of classes on creativity, and I once had a student ask me whether it would benefit their creativity if they took a different route to work each day. While changing up your environment can create serendipitous engagements with things that might spur a new idea, changing up your daily commute would mostly make you spend time and effort thinking about how you get to work when that time could be better spent in other ways. More generally, you have a limited amo...