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Recent studies find that cognitive overload can be caused by too much media multitasking.

We need at least eight hours of sleep for full brain and body recovery and memory consolidation.

Clearing the mind with breathing exercises and meditation can do wonders.

The absolute awesomeness of 24/7 connectedness is exactly what distorts our reality of space and time, causing us to be more scattered, stressed , unfocused, and overwhelmed, and even less productive. I am as guilty of this as anyone else, such as when I send an excited text at 10 p.m., and my friend is all the way in New York, where it’s 1 a.m. After I hit send, I realize with embarrassment that she is most likely asleep and I may have woken her with a nonessential and annoying text. So, how do we balance the exci

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