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The Day Ahead: Relatively Empty Calendar Increases Twilight Zone Potential

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The Day Ahead: Relatively Empty Calendar Increases Twilight Zone Potential 
TwilightImagine riding a bike, or an equivalent rote gross motor activity involving the navigation of a certain path. In this example, we'll use the bike. Now imagine riding this bike around a familiar path in a park. The weather is clear--the temperature, ideal. The pace is of your own choosing for the most part, though extra effort is required on some of the familiar hills. You might have to occasionally adjust your trajectory for a passerby, another cyclist, or a kamikaze squirrel, but for the most part, this is a path you know, on a fair day, with a fairly predictable set of eventualities and possible reactions on your part. Let this be "scenario 1." »Read Mo