This week, we cover the importance of managing your mental load with tools such as meditation and naps. We often find ourselves being robbed of our attention by hundreds of things going on around us. Processing our thoughts, findings and experiences. These tools are supremely beneficial to integrate these into your mind, calm it down and energize it as you move onto other things. David also talks about his realizations since the implementation of these tools and the benefits he gets from his active management of his mental load. We also provide some recommendations on implementation into your own lives, the reality of ebbs and flows in improving your health and well being and how important it is to be kind to yourself along the way.

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On this episode of Highly Functioning, we talk about our experience in elementary school. We believe this years of your life are instrumental in the way you shape your worldview as you grow up and become an adult. We touch on our experience with the education system, social relationships with other children, and defense mechanisms we used to cope with our environment. A key point we touched on was the importance of knowing that although you might not fit in the way other people do, it doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with you, or that you are any less of a human being. It’s important to understand the value of being different and being yourself. 

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On this episode, we cover the importance and implementation of emotions. We talk about how people can refrain from including emotions in their decision making, the validity of logical and emotional arguments, and taking control of our lives by shaping our view of the world. An important insight we spoke about is giving ourselves the ability to fully feel our emotions, and managing them instead of repressing them and letting them overwhelm you.

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In this episode, we talk about Winston's personal journey on how he's come to discover he might have Asperger's and the personal experiences that he's had throughout his life and how they started to click once he found out that might be the case. We also talk about how we develop methods to cope, pros and cons of having Asperger's including how someone acts in social situations and concepts such as masking.

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Today we talk about David's mental health journey, how he's come to realize he might have Asperger's, and talked a lot about his personal experiences, struggles and hurdles he's had to jump through to get to that result. We have a great conversation about what symptom's he's experienced, the quantity and degree of those experiences and the effects that labels of mental health have on someone's behaviour, and making sure that label is not an excuse for how someone acts.

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On the first episode of Highly Functioning, David Birnbaum and Winston Devendrarajah touch on why they started this project, why they think it is important to explore the mind as the next frontier, and why they wanted to start creating a community around the exploration of the mind and the brain.

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