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Dissecting Downtime: The Impact of Gender on Rest

Your Brain at Work

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The 7 Types of Attention Your Brain Needs to Be Healthy

The seven types of attention that your brain needs to be healthy. Focus time is what we have a lot of and it kind of expanded from, you know, six to eight hours in the old days to 10 to 12 hours for many of us where we're goal focused doing things. Connecting time, social time, that turns out to be really important for brain health. Playtime is novelty. And then downtime is none of the above, but it's not necessarily what you think.

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