One Way to Stop Obsessing Over Work When You’re at Home

When I have an important unfinished work task, it inevitably clangs around the inside of my head when I’m trying to sleep. This is pointless — there’s nothing to be gained by obsessing over how I’m going to report out a story when it’s 1 a.m. and I need sleep. A study in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology highlighted by the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest offers one potential way out of this self-induced brain trap.