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Key takeaways from Tips from neuroscience to keep you focused on hard tasks

Understanding cognitive control can help your working life, says David Badre. Open at source

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To solve hard problems, the brain needs ready access to the information, plans, procedures and knowledge it will be using

We should try to reserve a consistent time and place for our hard work and be protective of it

returning to a hard task in this way comes with a ‘restart’ cost

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