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So many companies start softball or basketball teams to promote collaboration and boost morale.

Some even give free gym memberships to encourage health and good work life balance.

But could exercise also increase actual job performance?

Our speaker today Wendy Suzuki says it can.

He's a neuroscientist who realized this after taking some exercise classes and becoming obsessed.

I realized that the grant writing was going well because I was able to focus and maintain

my attention for longer than I had before.

And my long-term memory, what I was studying in my own lab seemed to be better in me.

And that's when I put it together.

Maybe all that exercise was changing my brain.

Maybe I didn't experiment on myself without even knowing it.

This is Ted Business.

I'm Madu Back in Ola.

Our speaker today Wendy Suzuki not only studies brain plasticity and memory, but is also

an exercise instructor.

And at her TED Talk in 2017, she actually made the whole audience stand up and do aerobics.

You don't need to do that right now.

But I do want you to think about a task on your to-do list that you are dreading.

And by the end of the talk, my hope is that you'll have a new strategy which centers

around exercise to tackle it.

Then after the talk, I'll share a quick tip on how to trick yourself into exercising more.

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