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CM 237: Elaine Fox on Mental Agility

Curious Minds at Work

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How to Switch Tasks Quickly

The brain silks up a lot of energy to switch. So switching from one project to another is actually quite difficult. If you just finish one and go to the other straight away with no kind of switching between, that is fake draining. It's really important when you're, say, doing one project and then you've got another project. The more you do that, even though generally is not recommended in everyday life, it can be a good way of training your brain to switch very quickly.

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