Ashani Dante

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1,921 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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But Are You Happy? · How To Fight Back Against Hustle Culture, High Cortisol and Burnout · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And because that depletes throughout the day, it actually needs uninterrupted quiet to refill that meter back up.

Now, when we fill every single gap with input, whether that's a podcast in the car, this is a great one,

background tv or even a quick scroll between meetings we never actually give our system that chance to refill itself we keep drawing on a tank we're never fully topping up and scrolling is actually one of those things that feels quite passive you know i'm i'm lying on the couch just on my phone

Yeah, deep scrolling. matched

Yeah, that's right.

But your brain is actually working so hard through everything that's on the screen.

There's bits of fascinating research on how quickly our eyes scan the various elements of the screen through every millisecond of content that we're consuming that might include faces, emotional tones, comparison between the person we look at, even the captions that we're reading, the audio as well that we can

And that's a really significant cognitive load.

on us as people.

And this is where that idea of sensory rest kicks in.

Because so many of us are saturated with that input from the moment we wake up to the very moment that we go to sleep.

There's no recovery time built in.

So the brain reaches the end of the day, never having really stopped.

And then we expect sleep to do all of the work for us.

But sleep can't actually carry that entire load on its own.

It's too much.

More of my conversation with Shiktika after this short break. matched

What is the impact of always having a full mental inbox? matched

Like, can you walk us through what could happen to someone if they're not going to make any changes? matched

There's a really well-documented finding in the psychology research.

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