Cognitive Endurance: Building Mental Stamina

The podcast delves into the concept of cognitive endurance, defined as the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over time. It explores a study that revealed how students from low-income backgrounds experience cognitive fatigue quicker than their high-income counterparts. However, the research suggests that cognitive endurance can be developed like a muscle through specific training. Elementary school students in India were involved in experiments where cognitive tasks, like math problems and non-academic games, were used to build endurance.