Overloading

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Claim

Overloading is we take too much on ourselves, or spending too much time/energy doing something than we should not or could not handle.

Explanation

It is usually the result of the Hustle culture equates busyness with progress and causes burnout, which sees busyness as a virtue and rest as a vice, so we take on every single opportunity without stopping.

Why it matters

However, Rest enables recovery and sustained performance is essential to our wellbeing and productivity. Taking more not only leads to Stress can be adaptive or harmful depending on perception and context and eventually Burnout is chronic exhaustion from overwhelming demands, it also has Each additional unit provides progressively less value, where we are less and less effective, to the point where it could be harmful to the overall productivity, to due Task switching incurs cognitive costs that reduce productivity.

Examples

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

Supporters

Opposers

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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Overview

🔼Topic:: Working Memory and Cognitive Limits ↩️Origin:: Effortless (book) 🔗Link::