{"id":9865,"date":"2021-07-07T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2021-05-23T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:00:32","slug":"how-to-give-your-brain-a-break-without-the-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/how-to-give-your-brain-a-break-without-the-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Give Your Brain A Break Without The Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With email and social media following us wherever we go, it\u2019s more important than ever to let our brains take a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinecastrillon\/2019\/09\/11\/how-to-give-your-brain-a-break-without-the-guilt\/?sh=63d1e8984b2f\">How To Give Your Brain A Break Without The Guilt<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Have you noticed that lately, you have the attention span of a goldfish? According to a study by Microsoft, the average human being now has an attention span of eight seconds (yes, goldfish are believed to have an attention span of 9 seconds)-a decrease from the average attention span of 12 seconds almost 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With email and social media following us wherever we go, it\u2019s more important than ever to let our brains take a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/specials-images.forbesimg.com\/imageserve\/1008382428\/960x0.jpg?fit=scale","fifu_image_alt":"How To Give Your Brain A Break Without The Guilt","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5,174,507,111,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-meditation","10":"tag-mindfullness","11":"tag-relaxation","12":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}