In moments of intense shock, our brains appear to shift from regular, day-to-day video mode into stop-motion-photography mode.

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But it's trying to gradually, gingerly shift back to its regular music rotation.

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Over these 22 days, rather than paying my employees for their regular work duties, I paid them to spend their entire shift doing acts of kindness for others.

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The NFL playoffs and Super Bowl in particular resembled the shift that annually occurs in the NBA between (most) regular season games and playoff games (and some bigger regular season ones).

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