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Parenting in America with Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun

ParentData with Emily Oster

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Subtract When You're Stressed Out

The default of how we problem solve is to like add something new. And when you think about our busy schedules and our overly full closets, like always adding is kind of stressful. When we have higher cognitive burden, we're even less likely to subtract than we are under normal circumstances. I think the realization that we don't naturally default to making things simpler helps us to be more deliberate in our daily lives.

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