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Trouble achieving goals? Why your brain needs reminders.

9 mins | Aug 5, 2023
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A psychological strategy called cognitive offloading has benefits. The more we offload trivial information, such as items on a shopping list, the more we can use our brain “for those more rarefied human cognitive tasks,” such as creativity, reveals Richard Sima. Read by Michael Satow.

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