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You Can't Think Your Way to Clarity

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Why Stepping Away Sharpens Executive Thinking: A neurobiological model of the cognitive reset

Abstract

Executives and knowledge workers under sustained pressure routinely experience cognitive fatigue, declining decision quality, and emotional dysregulation. The default remedy is more cognition — r...

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