Low demands on mental work affects our endurance at doing mental work. In How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in...

Low demands on mental work affects our endurance at doing mental work. In How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction Heather Schofield & Supreet Kaur discuss how regularly engaging in even short appropriately-challenging mental practices can increase children’s mental endurance during tests. This seems important, given the ever-increasing demand to automate and reduce friction.