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Manage your brain

The goal here is to do what you can to help your brain help you. The more juice you reserve for processing information, the less likely you will be to experience overload.

Choose carefully how you expend your energy and avoid doing things that make your brain work harder than it has to. Here are a few ways to you can do this:

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