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Joakal on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up...

How does motivation factor into this due to the release of chemicals such as endorphin (game addiction or posting) or adrenaline (deadlines)?

thefreshteapot on April 28, 2011 [–]

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Food, when it was eaten inrelation to tiredness, light/medium or hard exercise(what type of exercise)

I certainly know my focus and "sharpness" does drop, yet it never drops at the same time(at least not obviously ie i have not measured it)

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