How do I practice trigger fatigue?

The most direct way to practice trigger fatigue is through a focused exercise: Open your phone's notification settings right now. Count the total number of apps with notifications enabled. Then count how many you actually acted on in the last 48 hours — not glanced at, acted on. Calculate your personal signal-to-noise ratio. If fewer than 20% of your notification sources drove real action, you have trigger fatigue. Disable everything that didn't make the cut. Live with the reduced set for one week before reconsidering.

Common pitfall: Adding one more trigger because this one feels important — while ignoring that the last five also felt important when you added them. The failure is never a single trigger; it's the cumulative weight of triggers that each seemed reasonable in isolation. You'll know you've hit fatigue when you feel a reflexive dismissal before you even process what the trigger is saying.

This practice connects to Phase 22 (Trigger Design) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.