Dr. Lila Landowski

Because I mean,

our brain can only do so much and we're constantly pushing it and pushing it and trying to do more and more with what we've got, right?

And one of the big things that happens is we're constantly context switching.

So we're doing one thing and then we're doing the next thing.

And I mean, just think of it like this.

If you're

let's say you're in a kitchen making a meal and then every five minutes you have to go to another kitchen to start making another meal.

You never finish the first one and then you go to the next one and you've got to figure out what this new recipe is and you've got to, you know, it takes time.

And that's basically kind of what the brain is doing each time we context switch.

We've got to take time to refill what we call our working memory with whatever it is that we're doing and

And like it just, it basically costs the brain.

So it takes a lot of energy and it's just really inefficient.

So we're never multitasking.

What we're doing is really task switching and it's just really inefficient for the brain.

Yeah, and look –

honestly, we never really had to multitask as much as we did today.

Like back in the day, you'd have a village that would bring up a family, you know, you wouldn't just be trying to do everything and trying to juggle everything.

And I think this, not just the emotional load, but the need to get kids to an appointment or worry about it, you know, worry about sports or all of these different things, worrying about navigating traffic, all of these things take a lot of mental load and that has consequences.

Yeah.

You know, like we've gone so far away from the way we as social beings were meant to live.