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#80: The Power of Focus - Amishi Jha, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Attention and the Different Systems at Play

The brain is not just one system operating here. There's a way that we can break it down into different systems and understand how they together. Henwy: Attention is really a fuel for almost every single thing we do. We need it for taking in information, guiding our action, maintaining our goals. And then the third system out of these kind of big three is something i call the juggler because this is formerly called the executive role.

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