The brain 🧠 makes future predictions that determine energy now.
The brain 🧠 makes future predictions that determine energy now.
Which is to say,
🛌 The desire to stay in bed
👩💼 Feeling exhausted in that meeting
🏡 Feel exhausted when you get home
🛑 Procrastination
🏃♂️ Feeling tired half way through exercise
As examples, are about the brains prediction of the future rather than your current biological state.
“The brain, as a generative system, models the world by predicting, rather than reacting to, sensory inputs. Predictions guide action and perception by continually constructing possible representations of the immediate future based on their prior probabilities relative to the present context”
From this perspective, structuring our days around fun is actually MORE effective than to structure it around efficiency first.
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