Again, brain researchers have discovered that when making a decision about your life, it helps immensely if you don’t just put a flood of words on that one piece of paper but also add some kind of a graphic, picture, or diagram. Particularly when you’re dealing with a lot of information (known as cognitive load in psychology), graphic organizers can help you more easily remember, understand, and address the information you’re working with. Researchers have discovered that this encourages the right side of your brain to spring into action—the part of your brain that can look at a whole bunch of
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