Timing
Doing the hard thinking when your head is clearest
Most women describe a window. Working with it rather than against it changes more than any technique.
3 minSource: Narrated
The pattern
For most women the clear window is earlier than it used to be, often the first two or three hours after waking.
The afternoon dip that arrives with a blood sugar drop is also the point at which thinking gets noticeably harder, which is why the two are worth treating as one problem.
What to do with that
Put the thinking work in the window and the admin in the dip, rather than the other way round.
Protect the window properly. It is worth declining a nine o'clock meeting to keep it.
Eat before the dip rather than after it, with something that includes protein.
Ten minutes outside at the low point does more than another coffee.
What most women want to know is whether this is permanent. The research on that is more reassuring than the experience of it.
General information, not medical advice. Narrated never diagnoses.
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