The 5 Step Protocol to Fix Your Afternoons
A Protocol for Making the Second Half of Your Day Actually Work
The free newsletter this week covered why decision quality drops in the afternoon: prefrontal depletion from accumulated choices across the day, combined with a hardwired circadian dip between 1pm and 3pm that reduces cognitive function regardless of how much you slept.
The common advice is to just schedule everything important in the morning and accept that afternoons are a write-off. That is partially right but mostly lazy. The morning-first rule helps, but it does not fix anything. This issue is about actually fixing it.
Step 1:
