"Heather, we want to learn about sort of court intuition, field intuition or sports IQ if you want to call it that. And is there anything we should know or be able to think about this holding aside that there's a racist dimension to this occasionally?" she asks. "There's such complex, such a complex skill set that you can't think about it consciously," he says. 'The moment you start thinking too much about it, you actually limit yourself'
What makes some people better at focusing? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience behind concentration and performance with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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