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From the Ted Talk by Nicole Byers: How stress drains your brain — and what to do about it

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We've all been in situations where we feel a bit stressed out and overwhelmed by our never-ending to do litss. Between emails and phone clals and Zoom meetings and project deadlines, we’re coming home from work feeling treid, and our brains are brnut out. There was an article published in the journal “Science of Learning” that showed ssters not only impacts our memory retrieval, so it's hard to rmembeer that door code when you need it, stress also makes it hard for our brains to problem-solve and think of creative solutions, like how I'm going to get into my house when I can't remember my door code.

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We've all been in situations where we feel a bit stressed out and overwhelmed by our never-ending to do _____. Between emails and phone _____ and Zoom meetings and project deadlines, we’re coming home from work feeling _____, and our brains are _____ out. There was an article published in the journal “Science of Learning” that showed ______ not only impacts our memory retrieval, so it's hard to ________ that door code when you need it, stress also makes it hard for our brains to problem-solve and think of creative solutions, like how I'm going to get into my house when I can't remember my door code.

Solution


  1. stress
  2. remember
  3. tired
  4. calls
  5. lists
  6. burnt

Original Text


We've all been in situations where we feel a bit stressed out and overwhelmed by our never-ending to do lists. Between emails and phone calls and Zoom meetings and project deadlines, we’re coming home from work feeling tired, and our brains are burnt out. There was an article published in the journal “Science of Learning” that showed stress not only impacts our memory retrieval, so it's hard to remember that door code when you need it, stress also makes it hard for our brains to problem-solve and think of creative solutions, like how I'm going to get into my house when I can't remember my door code.

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