How to Train Your Thinking Brain to Take Care of Routine Things

Short cuts, or reflex brain, also develops learned short cuts, habits, intuitions. Those are things that buy repetition by doing them again and again and again. A lot of our routine work is transferred from the thinking brain to the reflex brain. When you talk about the cost of energy, the reflective br to use it, you need to pay attention. And this costs energy. It gulps energy. That's one of the reasons why you need breaks.