Stuck at home? Watch your brain at work

Observing your own thoughts, staying open to alternate explanations, and loosening your attachment to your own ideas make you a better problem-solver – and less stressed to boot.

I stare out my window on yet another rainy Covid-work-from-home morning, struggling to motivate myself. I’ve got to prepare a presentation on cognitive concepts for a leadership program. I need to explain Recognition-Priming: how quickly your brain puts together stories, making sense of new situations by connecting to past experience.

Suddenly, the view isn’t boring anymore.