Why the Reticular Activating System is so important to understand

Donovan Vogel
Sep 2, 2018 · 4 min read
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Recognize in this very moment how truly incredible it is to be a human being. Our brains are incredibly complex and amazing. You can sift through billions of bits of data at any given point in time. And somehow, so you don’t overheat or short circuit like a computer, you have to organize that information. The Reticular Activating System helps us with that.

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