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But there is a type of daydreaming that will make you more creative and likely re-energize your brain. According to Jerome Singer, who has studied this for decades, slipping into a daydream is not of much use neither is guiltily rehashing everything that makes you feel bad - like the expense you incurred when you bought the shoes you liked, or the one-too-many drinks that you had at a party. It has to be the right type of daydreaming. Positive constructive daydreaming (PCD): It's hard to imagine daydreaming as a type of training, but it is.

This gives your brain enough time to shuttle around ideas to make the associations that it needs to make. But if you have a major creative project ahead of you, whether it is an innovative idea at work, or redecorating your house, you will need at least 90-minutes of napping time. Napping: If, for example, you are dog tired in the midafternoon, and just need your mind to be clear, a 10-minute nap might be all you need for sharper thinking. Some simple interventions could help you engage this network, depending on your goal. Surprising ways to train the default mode network Below are some that will give you a good start. This is the kind of sharpness that you will develop if you train the DMN. No wonder then, with all these functions on board, this network metaphorically converts your brain into a crystal ball, allowing you to predict things more accurately too. Somewhat surprisingly, although the DMN is involved in representing and understanding your self, it also helps you read the minds of others. Instead, when you turn your "focus" brain off, it will retrieve memories, link ideas so that you become more creative, and also help you feel more self-connected too. As you can imagine, this network is doing anything but "resting" even though it operates largely under the conscious radar. In fact, effort requires just 5% more energy. And this network uses more energy than any other network in the brain, consuming 20% of the body's energy while at rest. The "unfocus network" (or default mode network)Ĭalled the default mode network (DMN), we used to think of the unfocus network as the Do Mostly Nothing network. The "unfocus" network needs training too. Regardless, the focus network in the brain is not the only network that needs training.

Some of these exercises work, while others do not. “Outlook and Microsoft Teams are used by millions of people around the world, and this small change can help customers develop new cultural norms and improve wellbeing for everyone.Follow me on Twitter people do focused brain exercises to help develop their thinking.

“The back-to-back meetings that have become the norm over the last 12 months just aren’t sustainable,” says Jared Spataro, CVP, Microsoft 365. And now customers have the ability to set organization-wide scheduling defaults that shorten meetings and create space for breaks for everyone at the company.

Individuals can set scheduling defaults that automatically shorten meetings they schedule. Settings in Microsoft Outlook make it easier and automatic to carve out these essential breaks between back-to-backs-and because we know that one size does not fit all, companies have two options. “Our research shows breaks are important, not just to make us less exhausted by the end of the day, but to actually improve our ability to focus and engage while in those meetings,” says Michael Bohan, senior director of Microsoft’s Human Factors Engineering group, who oversaw the project. But the research also points to a simple remedy-short breaks. In our latest study of brain wave activity, researchers confirmed what many people sense from experience: Back-to-back virtual meetings are stressful. One conversation ends, another begins, and too often there’s no chance to stretch, pour a glass of water, or just clear your head. For many people, back-to-back video meetings are a hallmark of the pandemic era.