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So I have a confession to make.

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I only recently learned how to drive.

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And it was really hard.

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Now, this wasn't an older brain thing.

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Do you remember what it was like[br]when you first learned how to drive?

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When every decision you made[br]was so conscious and deliberate?

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I'd come home from my lessons[br]completely wiped out mentally.

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Now, as a cognitive scientist,[br]know that this is because

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I was using a lot of something[br]called executive function.

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Executive function is our amazing ability[br]to conciously control our thoughts,

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emotions and actions

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in order to achieve goals.