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0:01 Hello and welcome back to the Easy English Podcast. 0:05 I'm your host Oliver, and as always, we are going to be learning in slow and clear English today. 0:14 Have you ever walked into a supermarket, perhaps in a new country, and you're looking to buy a simple item? 0:23 Milk. Cereal. 0:25 Let's use a box of cereal, for example. 0:29 So you've walked into the shop and you leave after 10-15 minutes and you wonder, what on earth did I just do? 0:39 Why did it take me so long to choose one simple item? 0:45 I know I've definitely had this feeling before when you're in the shop and there are so many options. 0:54 And often when I finish food shopping, I can feel pretty exhausted, quite tired after doing it because there's so much 1:05 choice. And it's not just that you're tired or bad at shopping, it is a real thing that happens. 1:15 And we call this decision fatigue. 1:19 And that is today's topic. Don't worry if you don't know exactly what it is. I'm going to explain in a lot 1:27 more detail and you're going to learn some new vocabulary today related to this topic. O Whether you're abroad and 1:36 you're looking at lots of choices in a different language or you're simply struggling to make a decision in your own language, today's episode is for you. 1:49 So let's start and learn our key vocabulary for today's episode. 1:54 If you're new to the show, this is the part where I teach you 5 keywords or phrases that you need to know for today's episode. And then I want you to actively 2:06 listen for these words and phrases in the episode. 2:11 Does that sound good? Great, 1st, if you are new or you've been listening for a while, make sure that you're following or subscribed. It really, really helps to 2:22 promote the show and to get more people finding easy English. 2:27 Let's look at our key vocab. The first phrase today is key and that is decision fatigue. Decision fatigue. 2:38 Fatigue is simply tiredness. Essentially when you become tired of something. Decision fatigue is the mental 2:49 exhaustion. So the mental tiredness that is caused by making too many choices. 2:57 After many hours of shopping, I had a mental or a decision fatigue. Our second word for today is 3:07 autopilot. Autopilot. 3:10 Now, what does autopilot mean? Autopilot is when you do something automatically, so you do it without thinking. 3:22 And we often say on autopilot, so I do something on autopilot. 3:29 So you might find that when you're doing your grocery shopping, you do it on autopilot, or when you're doing 3:37 some chores at home, like cleaning dishes, you do it on autopilot. You're not thinking about it. 3:47 Our third word, which actually it's a phrase, is cognitive load. Cognitive load, That's a fancy phrase. What does it mean? 3:58 Cognitive load is the total amount of energy, like mental effort, that is being used in your memory. 4:07 Basically, how much is on your mind, how much is being used in your mind at one time. So when you have a high 4:17 cognitive load, there's a lot going on. 4:20 You're thinking about a lot. Your brain is doing lots of different things, and high cognitive load can lead to 4:29 decision fatigue and tiredness. OK, our fourth term today is actually quite a difficult one, and it's one that not a lot of 4:39 native speakers actually know because this is a theory related to these decisions, and it's called satisficing. 4:49 Satisficing and satisficing is when you choose a good enough option rather than the perfect 1. 4:59 So, for example, instead of comparing lots and lots of different options to get the perfect one by satisficing, you 5:09 might just pick one and end the process so that you can choose one. So you're picking a good enough option, you're satisficing, you're saying, ah, OK, I'm happy 5:21 to just choose this option, and I'm not too worried about getting the perfect option. And our final phrase today is 5:31 the paradox of choice. And the paradox of choice is the idea that having too many options makes us feel less happy 5:41 and more stressed. So you might think that having more options and more things to do or to choose from is good and will make us happier, but it actually makes us more stressed. 5:53 And we'll talk about that a little bit later. 5:56 So those are our keywords for today, and I want you to listen out for them in today's episode. And if you want more vocabulary, 6:05 so we get vocabulary flash cards, make sure to sign up for the Easy English Patreon. It's the best way to support the show and to support me as your host. 6:17 And you get access for the monthly fee to bonus episodes every month or every week, as well as PDF transcripts and 6:28 flash cards, vocabulary flash cards for each episode of the podcast. So I hope to see you on there. 6:36 And thank you to all of my Patreon supporters. 6:39 OK, so let's take a look at the scenario of, you know, when you're in your home country. So you're using your native 6:48 language and your brain really is a master of efficiency. 6:54 It works very, very well. When you walk into your local store, you're actually not really thinking as such, 7:02 especially if you have a list your feet, they know the aisle because it's the local store that you go to every day or 7:10 every week, and your eyes recognize the brand colours. 7:15 Your hand moves towards the blue cap of the milk that you've always bought every week that you go there. 7:23 And this is autopilot. It's something that I definitely experience when I do the local shopping every week. 7:31 This is a like, it's a survival mechanism. 7:34 It's a system of our bodies that helps us to create these routines and these routines, this autopilot. 7:44 It saves mental energy that we have and it saves that so that we can use it on more important things. 7:54 Now a good example of this. So I in our family, I do the food shopping most of the time. So most weeks I go to our local 8:03 shop, which is called Tesco, and I do the grocery shopping there. 8:10 And for a while I had got very good at it. 8:13 I was on autopilot you could say when I go into the shop I know where things are, where to get stuff and I felt very fast, very 8:23 quick moving around the supermarket. 8:26 But recently, probably about a year ago, they decided to completely redo the whole shop. So they moved things around, 8:37 they put things in different places, and they redesigned the whole area. And when I went back, it was 8:46 stressful. I felt so much mental load, I guess cognitive load, trying to decide or figure out where to 8:57 go, where things were. Everything had moved and my autopilot was gone. I had to start from scratch and 9:08 completely rebuild the autopilot that I had for shopping. 9:13 But over time, again, I have built that autopilot up and I find that when I go shopping every week, it's getting a 9:20 little bit faster because I know exactly where everything is, where to get it, and I can do it nice and quickly. 9:29 But when you step into a foreign supermarket, so a supermarket in another country from that of your native language, everything 9:40 goes into manual mode. So no autopilot, no automation, and your brain is trying to work out where everything is. 9:52 For example, even if your English is great but you're in the UK or the US visiting, you're still translating even 10:00 though you don't realize, you know, you're trying to look at things and work out what the product is and what type of 10:09 product it is, maybe some of the details, and it becomes a lot more effort. Even if you were doing that in your native language, it is already effort, but it's an 10:18 extra layer with the language. You might also find that if you go to a new shop or a shop in another country, things are in 10:29 completely different places, which again adds more cognitive load to your brain. Your brain is working harder to 10:39 do something which you usually do on autopilot. 10:44 And This is why after those simple tasks in a foreign language, you can feel very tired. 10:51 I know this experience very, very well. 10:54 When I was living and studying abroad and I was speaking in another language all day and hearing that language, I felt 11:02 exhausted, so tired. Honestly, when I think back, I used to actually think for a time, maybe I was becoming like, I'll maybe sick that there was something wrong with me. 11:14 But I realized that usually by the afternoon, I was getting so mentally tired. I just wanted to sleep for maybe 11:23 an hour or two hours just to rest my brain. 11:27 But anyway, back to our supermarket example today. 11:31 And we're looking a little bit at the paradox of choice as well. And supermarkets are really designed to trigger that paradox of choice. 11:45 So supermarkets tend to pick, you know, more options are better. So we want lots of options and give us lots of choice. And perhaps they think that that 11:55 will make us happier customers. But the science really tells the opposite. When you're trying to choose a cereal, for example, and you see 40 different options of cereal, 12:07 half of them you don't even recognize or know. 12:10 Your brain starts to go crazy trying to work out which one to pick and why. You might start comparing the 12:20 sugar content, the price, which one's healthier, which one's not? Are there any deals on the products? And because you don't know the 12:31 default product, the one that you always go for, for example, when you're making that first choice, you try to find the 12:40 perfect choice. And this is what causes that heavy kind of tired feeling in your brain. 12:50 If you're really maxing out that cognitive load and tiring yourself out, you aren't just trying to choose what items you're going to buy for breakfast. 13:01 You're trying to solve a problem that can't really be solved. 13:05 There's too many options. There is no perfect choice. 13:11 So what do we then do? Eventually what happens is we start to get tired. Our brains start to get exhausted with these choices and we do something called 13:23 satisficing, but something that we can definitely learn to do a lot faster and it can be very beneficial for making quick 13:32 choices correctly. So if we look for example at the 2 minutes rule, it's something that a lot of people recommend. 13:40 So if you give yourself exactly 2 minutes maximum to pick an item, or maybe even one minute, and if you haven't decided, pick 13:50 the one that you liked the most so far and leave. 13:54 Keep going. Because spending more time it doesn't mean you're going to get a better choice or a better outcome. It simply means you're probably going to waste even more mental energy. 14:06 Another option to reduce this mental load on, you know, getting that decision fatigue is you know, to once you find a 14:16 brand or a product that you like, keep buying that. 14:20 So build it into your routine. Or perhaps if you decide you want to just go for the best deal every time, you can just look for the one that is on discount and pick that every 14:30 time. And you'll find that those shopping trips or you know, any kind of decision that you have to make on a routine, it becomes easier, it becomes quicker and 14:41 much, much more comfortable. OK, let's take a break from the supermarket. And I want to go to our listener spotlight. I have two comments today, which 14:53 answered the question from last week. 14:55 I forgot to ask the question in the actual video. 15:00 I was must have been quite tired. 15:03 But I did ask, you know, have you do you have any friends who you communicate with in English? And I had a couple of very good answers and the first was from Miliani. 15:14 Um, apologize if I do not get the name correct with the pronunciation. You can correct me and I will read it correctly the next time, I promise. 15:23 And so Miliani said Hello teacher Oliver, I am Lena, oh I guess Lena for short from Algeria. 15:32 I haven't bonded with someone in my life because I am sociable or maybe not sociable, but I have had many friendships to be open 15:41 minded, share them my opinions, and discover new hobbies I've communicated with them in English. 15:49 Excellent, excellent. Lena, that is great that you've had so many relationships like friendships with people in English. It's a great way to practice and 16:00 a wonderful way to expand and really explore your English fervor. OK I had another great comment 16:09 and it was from Meonju and Miyandu said hello. 16:14 You'll never guess how much I looked forward to reach your latest episode. I've binge listened to your podcast from the beginning. You may or may not remember my 16:24 latest comment. I always appreciate your cool podcast. I remember your comments, I do. 16:31 I've read pretty much all of your comments on the episodes as you've been going through and I even saw I think it was a blog post as well, which was excellent. 16:42 And they their answer to the question me. 16:44 Andrew's answer was I met a foreign friend in my country before I study English harder. It's not like I couldn't 16:52 communicate with her, but if I met her now, I would get along better than before. Excellent. 17:00 As you improve your English 100%, when you meet more people in the future, you will really see that difference and that improvement in your level of speech. 17:09 So it's excellent that you've made so much improvement, so much progress, and I hope that you continue to do so in the future. OK, Thank you for all your 17:20 wonderful comments. And I guess off of today's episode, I want to change this segment up a little bit. 17:29 Instead, what I want to do is give you the space and the opportunity to ask me questions. So we know we're going to do 17:39 like I will read your comments, but I also want to answer your questions. So ask me anything. 17:45 It can be about English, it can be about myself, it can be about the UK and my country and culture. 17:52 I want you to ask me questions and I they will answer them in this section of the podcast. But also if you want to answer 17:59 my question, you can tell me. Do you ever have decision fatigue? Are there any choices that you struggle to make and you're, you're thinking, oh, maybe this 18:11 one perhaps in a restaurant you struggle to choose the food or in a supermarket like my example. 18:18 Let me know and ask me any questions you want me to answer to. OK, so that brings us towards 18:28 the end of our podcast today. If you feel exhausted after, you know, some trips to the supermarket or big decisions 18:37 that you have to make or even simply easy decisions that have lots of choices, you're not alone. 18:44 It is something which is legitimate. 18:47 It's something that almost everyone experiences and we can learn with time to get better at making choices. 18:58 So always remember, it's not just you, it's your biology. 19:03 It's our bodies, our brains and how they work. 19:07 It's not normal to have to make hundreds and hundreds of choices from lots of different items all the time. 19:14 But unfortunately, that is the world that we live in. 19:18 But we can try and take those steps that we discussed to possibly minimize those choices a little bit and create some 19:26 more autopilot routines to help save our brain power, our cognitive load for work and important areas of our lives. 19:37 So thank you for taking some of your mental energy to listen to this podcast. If you want to take your learning further, you can become a member of the Easy English 19:46 Patreon and get access to many more videos, podcasts, bonus episodes, transcripts, and vocabulary for each episode as 19:57 well. And of course, on there you can message me, you can leave comments and we can have a chat too. So I hope to see you on there as well. Thank you very much for 20:07 watching, and I will see you in next week's podcast or on Thursday if you're a bonus Patreon member. 20:14 Goodbye.
دربارهی این قسمت Bonus Episodes & Full Transcript PDFs, Vocabulary Flipcards Every Week on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/englishwitholiver My Phrasal Verb Book and more : https://stan.store/easyenglishpodcast Have you ever stared at 40 types of milk and felt like crying? It’s called Decision Fatigue, and it’s the #1 reason international residents feel drained. We’re breaking down why "Manual Override" is killing your productivity and sharing the "Satisficing" strategy to help you reclaim your mental energy.