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HERCULEAN, that's how I feel today

A few weeks ago, I was invited by Feeling to a ladies’ event organized at the Mercedes Lounge during the Zoute Grand Prix. One of the keynote speakers at the event was Professor Elke Geraerts, specialized in Neuropsychology and i.a. postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and lecturer at St Andrews. Elke is also author of the fascinating book The New Mental. Unfortunately the book isn’t available in English yet, but I’m sure that this bestseller will be translated soon.

The “New Mental” is exactly the book that we all need. We’re currently facing a severe brain crisis, one of the causes of the current burn-out epidemic that affects approx. 10% of the working population. The culprits of the brain crisis are technology and the flexible working system, which makes mental rest valuable and rare.

Geraerts:”Nowadays, our brains are like a loose cannon. We are consumed by the illusion…

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