"However, there is an importance to being able to put it aside and let those daydreams naturally perform the cognitive functions your brain needs".
Like Maria Callas said, when you perform, half of your brain has to be extremely conscious and the other half extremely free".
"You get accustomed to consider having to go perform when your body and your brain don't feel at their best," said Mike Mussina, tonight's starting pitcher.
Miller and I talked about how a cell phone might be designed to counter this craving, so as to avoid nomophobia and help your brain perform at its best.
The reason you forget if you just washed your hair while taking a shower is that because washing your hair is a deeply ingrained habit, your brain performs the task on autopilot, so you can use your brain for something else at that moment.
Would you have your plumber perform brain surgery on your wife?
That's because lack of sleep messes with your cognition, making it harder for your brain to perform basic functions like concentrating and remembering.
You can train your brain to perform at an optimal level, race it into the ground, or slowly smother its brilliance by submitting to life on autopilot.
They were effectively performing a brain transplant on the company's most important products, the iPhone and the iPad.
This is the way we think about aging in general — that after you walk enough miles, and your heart pumps enough blood, and your brain performs enough work, your body starts to break down, just as a car does when the odometer reaches seventy-five thousand or a hundred thousand miles.
