Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Being ‘busy’ isn’t a badge of honor, it’s a barrier. #boundariesmatter #boundaries #selfcaretips

10 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue Dr. Jameca Cooper debunks a core myth of hustle culture—the idea that staying constantly busy is a virtue. She explains that perpetual motion keeps people in a survival‑mode state and that excessive multitasking harms the brain: it increases errors, reduces attention, raises stress, impairs rational decision‑making, damages memory, and even diminishes the efficiency of gray‑matter structures. Cooper frames these neuro‑cognitive consequences as a call to self‑care, urging viewers to limit multitasking to situations where it’s truly necessary, to let go of unnecessary “mess,” and to set personal boundaries that protect mental health.

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One big lie about hustle culture. The lie is how moving, moving, moving and keeping busy keeps you in this constant state of survival mode. Multitasking, we all do it. Some people do it way too much. But what you don't know is it has a negative effect on your brain and your functioning. Not only are you going to have more errors and decreased distractibility, but you're also gonna likely increase your stress overall. You're going to make it very hard to make rational, good decisions, and most importantly, you're going to affect your memory, and you're going to lead to something called gray matter in your brain not being as efficient. That's huge. So not only are you going to have more stress, but you're going to actually impact the structure and the function of your brain. So self-care is taking care of yourself and taking care of your brain. Only multitask if you need to. Otherwise, let some of that mess go.