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Low-stakes unfamiliar activities

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  1. Low-stakes unfamiliar activities can activate prefrontal-cortex circuits.

    a small increase in your willingness to put yourself into conditions where you don't understand all the rules, perhaps, or you're not super proficient at something, but you enter it because it is low stakes and because there is information to learn about yourself and others could start to open up these prefrontal cortex circuits.

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