Choice and Mental Effort
Althea Need Kaminske
Choice and Mental Effort
Cover Image by Ted Erski from Pixabay
By Althea Need Kaminske
Thinking is hard. In general, we don’t like to put forth mental effort when we can avoid it. Further, when we do exert mental effort, we tend to not like it. And yet… there are times when we actually enjoy doing the hard work of thinking through something. There are times when we may even feel we’ve entered into a flow state, where difficult tasks feel relatively effortless (1). How we feel about completing a.