A short transcript excerpt in which the speaker describes their experience of cognitive overwhelm and a personal coping strategy: acknowledging incoming thoughts, accepting that more will arrive, and deliberately focusing on a single task or implementing a strategy to manage multiple distractions.
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And it just gives you such a better insight into people. And for me, myself, thinking about that and thinking about what it looks like to think really helps because in those times when you're overwhelmed, like for me, it scares people sometimes when I tell them what my brain works like, but it's me in the middle and there's just stuff coming from every single direction. And so I'm trying to grab onto one thing and while I'm holding onto that piece of information, everything else is like punching me in the face, trying to grab my attention. And if you push one of those things away, another five things try to squeeze into that spot. And so for me, in those times when I'm massively overwhelmed, I can go, hey, I know that all this stuff is going to keep coming and it's okay. I'm just going to try and focus on this one thing that I need to focus on or I need to put in a strategy now because there's too many things happening.