This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you.

I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

And I'm money expert Nicole Lapin.

On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems.

And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts now.

You are working hard on something, but that something just isn't working.

Maybe you hit a dead end on a project or you fell behind on a deadline or you're staring at a blank

page just unable to create something brilliant. Today, I'm going to fix that problem for you. You are

going to improve your performance. You're going to have a breakthrough idea and you're going to rock

through your tasks. And all you have to do is this. You have to use less of your brain. It's a counterintuitive

idea, I know. I stumbled upon it myself recently and then discovered that this has deep roots

in psychology. So today I'm going to explain how to do it, how to just turn yourself off a little bit. But first,

I'm going to tell you how it helped me. So last year, I bought a Papa Shot. You've seen Papa Shot.

Just imagine going to an arcade and there's like a little basketball game there, you know,

like some small basketballs and you shoot into a hoop and then it

rolls right back to you. Anyway, Popashot is just one of the brands that makes those things.

It's a basketball game. I bought one of those things and I set it up in my basement because when

you're an adult and you have a basement, you can buy one of those things and set it up there.

I said it was for my kids, but let's be honest. This thing was for me. I was really

excited about it. I love this thing. It's a great way to relax. And as I have played, I've noticed

an interesting pattern. When I shoot in silence, I am just so-so. My high score is maybe 50.

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