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Relax and clear your head. Listen to some music, audio books.

• pesfandiar 10y ago
  This is very important. Without some time off for your brain, you can't be productive for a long time. Just listening to music and being half-aware of bumper-to-bumper traffic is a good way to give your brain some rest.
• tunap 10y ago
  In my experience, audiobooks are excellent for wide open freeway miles, and much less beneficial in traffic. One small event(close call) becomes an attention tangent and I miss last 10 or more seconds of content. Which leads to fiddling to scan back which becomes a distraction/irritation. Try driving in silence. It allows me to process yesterday and anticipate the coming day.
  • reitoei 10y ago
    Processing yesterday or the day just gone is not always a good idea, especially if you had a bad day. This used to happen to me, I'd mull over things I should have said or done and basically torture myself for an hour until I made it home. Fuck that.
    • tunap 10y ago
      Yup, different strokes. If I don't take time to reflect my life becomes messy and my decisions become reflexive instead of weighted. When I am heated, I do go through the thoughts and let emotions run(alone) to allow the release long before I act. edit:removed unnecessary anecdote.