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Ep152 - Gabija Toleikyte | Habits, Behaviors & Change

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Do You Need to Train Your Ventral Attention System?

In addition t to good functioning of prefrontal quots, we also need to put the work and practice in to strengthen new networks. And let me illustrate that with attention networks in the brain. We have two distinct attention networks, gol directed, or also calle top down system,. dorsal attention network which basically can still focus on what i am trying to to discuss. ventral attention system, wat would actually do the opposite. It would try to steal my attention for anything was going on around us. Now we need both systems. So imagine if you're hunting in the wilderness, let's go back to hunt the gathak times, if you just focused on your goal, you can easily

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