After you get a haircut you like, ask your stylist to describe what ey did/what the style is, ideally in the vocabulary of the trade. For instance, my current style includes a face frame, long layers, and some other style words.
Write it down, stick the note in your wallet, forget about it until the next haircut. You get the benefit of repeating instructions as they would be described from one hairstylist to another and are less likely to fall victim to terrible cuts or the poor memory of your regular stylist.
As someone who is less productive with a bad haircut (I have to pin unruly lengths out of my eyes, etc), this has saved me time and confusion.
I think I fall into the latter category, so here's my murky model and answers: 1) On two separate occasions, I recall explicitly turning down friends who wanted to create podcasts or writing projects. I was fairly sure I'd enjoy it, had expectations of high quality from the projects, and would have done it under different circumstances (being less busy). My initial feeling was fear of missing out--fear that it would be as fun as I anticipated, and that my reward would be "Well, I did have a chance to do that cool thing everyone else admires!" Lat...
I'm afraid my point was a victim of the 140 character limit. I don't think I was quite looking for the availability heuristic (which I'd already checked and discarded), but ended up tweaking my example to use it in the blog.