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Taking time off work to relax and rejuvenate — the defiant act of being utterly unproductive — is vital to mental well-being, to happiness, new research finds.
Stop Trying to Be So Damn Productive
Robert Roy Britt
**Practice The Real Skill You Want**
- Train the brain by practicing the specific skill you want to improve rather than generic brain-game routines.
- Budson warns brain-training games mainly improve at the game, not everyday cognition.
Transcript:
Andrew Budson M.D.
Absolutely. We totally can. And the key is to train with the most direct example as you possibly can. So what I mean by that is there are a lot of companies that are out there, many of whom are working very hard with lots of scientists to try to develop brain training games that are going To really help us. But so far, what the studies have proven is that if you spend a lot of time with these brain training games, you get better at the brain training games. You know, it does not translate into everyday life. But, like, if you want to get better at doing something like, you know, remembering, you know, French vocabulary words, you can get better at remembering French vocabulary words by Basically working hard at, you sort of a routine or a program as to how you're going to work on studying the vocabulary words, how you're going to incorporate it into your life. So we all can improve on almost anything our brain does.
Battling Brain Rot
Today, Explained
Perfectionists are not balanced people, and that’s okay. Subscribing to prepackaged notions of balance and generic wellness when they don’t fit who you are isn’t being healthy, it’s being obedient. I wrote this book for the women[*] who are done being “good.” I wrote this book for the women who are ready to set themselves free.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
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