Overloading

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Overloading is we take too much on ourselves, or spending too much time/energy doing something than we should not or could not handle. It is usually the result of the Hustle Culture, which sees busyness as a virtue and rest as a vice, so we take on every single opportunity without stopping.

However, Rest is essential to our wellbeing and productivity. Taking more not only leads to Stress and eventually Burnout, it also has Diminishing Returns, where we are less and less effective, to the point where it could be harmful to the overall productivity, to due Task Switching.

Sometimes being overloaded is not a choice, it is thrust upon us, like kids with parents that fill their schedules with lessons and activities to the brim. Margins

It is not always easy to tell when someone is overloading themselves, and paradoxically we might only see it afterwards as a pressure drop, when we break down after a challenge, not during it.

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🔼Topic:: Memory, Attention and cognitive load (MOC) ↩️Origin:: Effortless (book) 🔗Link::