Market Analysis Stock Picks Market Insight Crypto Stocks to Buy Hot Stocks Your brain is wired to make this investing mistake Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). This morning (Friday), when the alarm buzzed, my first instinct wasn’t to get out of bed. Outside, it was still dark. There wasn’t a single part of me that wanted to throw off the covers and start the day. I already had a decision to make, and I hadn’t been awake for 10 seconds.

More sleep or get up and exercise. Then came the next decisions. Which route to take to work? By the time I sat down at my desk, I’d already made dozens of decisions – and those were only the ones I could remember.