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87: Your Brain on Making
Your Brain on Making
When you feel anxious or overwhelmed or just flat - what do you reach for? Most people reach for something easy. The phone. The remote. Something mindless. And most people find it doesn't really help. They put the phone down twenty minutes later feeling roughly the same. Sometimes worse.
There's a documented reason for that. And the solution the research points toward is the exact opposite of what most wellness content recommends.
This episode goes deep into the neuroscience of what making things with your hands actually does for your brain and body - starting with…
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