What is trigger fatigue?

Trigger fatigue is a concept in personal epistemology: Too many triggers overwhelm your attention — curate ruthlessly.

Example: You set up eleven daily reminders: journal, stretch, review goals, meditate, read, drink water, check calendar, clean inbox, practice a language, log food, and do a gratitude exercise. By day three you're swiping away every notification without reading it. By day seven you've turned off notifications entirely. The two triggers that actually mattered — journaling and calendar review — are now buried alongside nine that didn't. You went from a system that could have worked to a system that trained you to ignore everything.

This concept is part of Phase 22 (Trigger Design) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for trigger design.