Welcome to QuickBrain. Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.

I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

Free your mind.

Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

I know Kung Fu.

Show me. How do you call? I know Kung Fu.

Show me. How do you calm a busy mind and prevent brain burnout?

That's the question, right?

Because how can you achieve your crucial priorities

when you're drowning in busy work? because how can you achieve your crucial priorities

when you are drowning in busy work?

In this episode, we're going to talk about the power of white space,

the strategic pause taken between activities.

And according to our guests, it's this vital open fluid flexible time

that makes the smartest of us even smarter. Isn't that exciting? And it's the most

endangered element of modern work because it's the opposite of the relentless

busyness that drains your best mental performance and your productivity.

Now, when we perform complex, intensive tasks without giving our brains time to recuperate,

we experience cognitive fatigue.

We've talked about in prior episodes, cognitive fatigue, decision fatigue.

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