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## [While We All Work From Home, Cozy Up to Cognitive Capacity](https://blog.neuroleadershipinstitute.org/2020/03/17/while-we-all-work-from-home-cozy-up-to-cognitive-capacity)

 Posted by [Kyle Olsen](https://blog.neuroleadershipinstitute.org/author/kyle-olsen) on Mar 17, 2020 5:30:00 PM

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As children, many of us were counselled to treat “work before play” as a sacred mantra. While the advice was well intentioned, neuroscience makes a compelling case for rethinking the order of operations. “Happiness,” advises Emma Seppälä, Ph.D., in *The Happiness Track*, “is not the outcome of success, but its precursor.”

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