Are you a multitasker? You could be subjecting yourself to cognitive overload. While some of us hold ‘being busy’ as a badge of honor, the reality is that over-taxing your memory capacity results in a loss of productivity and even emotional control.

What is Cognitive Overload?

Essentially, we have two types of Memory capacity: working memory and long-term memory. Working memory is relatively limited and can quite easily become overloaded. Long-term memory has a far greater capacity but requires that information come to it through the working memory. If the latter is taxed beyond its abilities, the information will not transfer through correctly and therefore won’t be available to be retrieved at some point in the future.