The brain is the entire body’s control system, and is powerful. Understanding its potential is valuable.
Just as an athlete needs to overreach to stretch and extend their physical capacity, academics benefit similarly from stretching their cognitive capacity. Extending the amount of time, the topics and the style of study enables academics to extending their current limits.
As with physical overreaching, cognitive overreaching needs to occur in a deliberate and managed way. It requires adequate fueling, rest and recovery. Without these considerations, the benefits will be minimal and will be outweighed by unwanted consequences.
Overreaching in an academic arena can be rewarding, motivating and consequential.
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