Mel Robbins

And before I knew it, inbox cleared.

And how about that sad empty fridge?

I opened up the door.

I snapped a photo.

And Copilot built a simple meal plan and grocery list for the week.

It gave me new recipes.

It told me exactly what ingredients I needed to buy at the store and gave me cooking instructions.

I didn't have to carry all this stuff around with me anymore in my head, draining my energy because...

Co-pilot had my back.

I felt the tension lift from my shoulders.

And I realized why.

The overwhelm that you and I feel, it doesn't come from doing all the things that we need to do.

It comes from carrying those things around in our heads.

The planning, the coordinating, the remembering, the checking back, the thinking about it, the strategizing, the mental to-do list, it never shuts off.

There's a term for that in science.

It's called cognitive load.

There's a lot of research around this, but I'm going to tell you what researchers in China found not too long ago.

And this research was published in the Journal of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science.

When you're trying to keep too many things in your head, your thinking gets slower, your emotions get louder, everything starts to feel heavier than it really is.

Your brain has a limited amount of mental bandwidth.