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In her Psychology Today article, "7 Ways to Unchain Your Brain and Do More, Better", Susan Perry shares these insights for unchaining your brain from Theo Compernolle's book BrainChains:

1. Your brain is a network of networks of networks, containing 160 billion cells and eight quadrillion connections, plus your brain is connected to every cell in your body.
2. Our reflecting brain involves thinking deep, thinking ahead, thinking back, and thinking critically about what our reflex brain concludes quickly.
3. You cannot think two thoughts at the same time.  Both simultaneous multitasking and serial multitasking require switching back and forth between two tasks.
4. Task-switching slows you down and messes with the quality of what your brain produces.
5. Restarting a task takes more time than sticking with it, so that every minor distraction delays you more than you realize.
6. Emails, tweets, and texts are far less deep and effective than actual conversations where we use our senses to gather important information.
7. Stressed minds need recovery time.  In a boring meeting?  Far better to let your mind wander than to connect and guzzle more data.
   
   
   

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