📱 Your brain is being overloaded by your phone to the point of exhaustion, whether you realise it or not, writes KasiaLDelgado Here's how to train your brain to avoid burnout ⬇️
multitasking is bad for our brains“If there’s a couple of minutes when nothing is occupying you, it’s too tempting to pick the phone up and start scrolling through social media, or answering messages. Our brains are never bored anymore, when actually boredom can be a good thing.
“The way we live now is the equivalent of having the TV remote and flicking from channel to channel,” says Walker. “When you start to flick your attention from one thing to another, you lose your capability to focus on the new thing, but you also lose your focus on whatever it was you were doing [before you were distracted].”
“If you’re doing a project and you flick to your emails, then back to your project, then onto social media , then back to the project, each time you switch your attention,” says Walker, “it takes your brain a surprising amount of time to catch up with where it was. It has an astonishing effect on being able to hold attention, and so we’re being trained by modern technology to have a butterfly-style attention span which is both making us less efficient, and more exhausted.
2. Try to divide up tasks so you have a period of the day when you’re doing a specific work task, and then a period part way through the day where you check your emails, rather than switching back and forth between inbox and work every time an email pings. It will mean you don’t miss anything urgent but also mean that you’re using less bandwidth in your brain because you’re not constantly trying to hold a million segments in mind all at the same time.
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