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Nature restores your capacity to focus on hard tasks.

Attention Restoration Theory suggests that natural environments replenish your depleted cognitive resources, unlike urban environments.

Urban settings demand 'directed attention,' which leads to fatigue. Natural environments allow for 'soft fascination,' providing your brain the rest it needs to regain focus and executive function.

You are more capable after looking at trees.

Where this comes from

Study: Kaplan, 1995, Journal of Environmental Psychology
What the check found: Stephen Kaplan's 1995 paper in the Journal of Environmental Psychology is the widely recognized seminal work for Attention Restoration Theory.
Confidence: Well replicated

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Your attention is silently pulled toward what you fear.
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Nature restores your capacity to focus on hard tasks.

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