How Mental Fatigue Affects Behaviour and Doing Better

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A ran across a study that found mental fatigue can lead to increased aggression and uncooperative behaviour due to changes in the brain’s frontal cortex.

This would explain why I have to work harder to be nice to Lori when I’ve spent hours doing coding. And why she has the same struggle after doing a lot of bookkeeping.

You could see this as proof your aggression and being uncooperative are understandable. Or you can take this as a warning and work to avoid those outcomes. The latter choice is far better for your wife and your marriage.

Learn how much is too much, and stop before you’re no longer willing to keep yourself in check.

Reference: Prolonged exertion of self-control causes increased sleep-like frontal brain activity and changes in aggressivity and punishment

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