The human mind performs many cognitive tasks that control how well we learn, work and manage life. They aren’t part of IQ or EQ. These are “executive functions” like self-control, planning, adapting, viewing things from different perspectives, creating new ideas, storing and retrieving information to perform complex tasks, making decisions, using reasoning or logic to solve problems, and much more. One of the cognitive functions most used by successful people yet least acknowledged is called “updating.” Without updating, no college course is completed, no degree is earned, no project reaches the finish line and no work plan is accomplished. So what is cognitive updating, how does it work and what happens if your brain is not very good at updating? Can this unseen hero of productivity be improved?

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