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How to Tame Your Busy Mind

Turn down the chaos

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Joe Gibson
Sep 25, 2022
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Turn down the chaos

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Our brains are energy-consuming machines. Despite only being 2% of our body mass it consumes an astonishing 20% of our overall energy requirements. More importantly, this figure doesn’t change whether we’re engaged in brain-testing calculus or doing nothing at all.

This is evident at any time we…

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