By Elena Renken — 2020
When you listen to a story, whatever your age, you're transported mentally to another time and place — and who couldn't use that right now?
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Your life depends on your brain. To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. You need your brain and you also need to use your brain. It is not enough to possess a perfectly good brain—you must also use it.
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