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Incredible reframing here. The distinction between cognitive fatigue and phyiscal fatigue is someting most people miss when they're pushing throgh a long trip. I've noticed similiar patterns where late-day mistakes aren't about effort but bandwidth. Treating attention like intervals makes alot more sense than just grinding harder through mental fog.

Lindsay Kocka's avatar

Thanks for this.

“Bandwidth” really is such a useful way to name what’s actually getting taxed late in the day. I love the interval framing, too. Most fishing days aren’t meant to be sustained at peak output; they’re a series of demands that benefit from intentional downshifts in between.

When we treat attention the way we might treat effort in training(with periods of recovery built in) decision-making stays cleaner and we don’t burn through all of our cognitive fuel + reserves.

Appreciate you naming that so clearly.