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Stress Less 减轻压力
How to Eliminate Stress and Triple Your Productivity
We live a world where it is not uncommon to be
talking on the phone, while checking emails, having
a conversation on Skype, cooking dinner and trying
to take care of the kids all at the same time!
But this, unfortunately, is not something that is
very natural for our brains to handle.
This ability we have of multitasking arises from
the pre‐frontal cortex of our brain, which is found in
the more recent neo‐cortex.
Psychologist Marcel Just at the Carnegie Mellon
University has extensively studied multitasking.
He states that your brain is a marvel at multitask‐
ing and many things that happen simultaneously,
such as breathing, your heartbeat and digestion
“ When a human is assessing tasks, prioritizing
them and assigning mental resources, these
frontal lobes are doing most of the work, says Dr.
Jordan Grafman, a neuropsychologist and chief of
the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke at the National Institutes of Health.”
“Grafman says, that the prefrontal cortex is the
part of the human brain that is most damaged as a
result of prolonged stress, particularly the kind of
stress that makes a person feel out‐of‐control and
helpless. The kind of stress, say, that you might feel
when overwhelmed by the demands of multi‐
tasking.”
“Such stress, Grafman says, also will cause the
death of brain cells in another region — the hippo‐
campus, which is critical to the formation of new
memories. Damage there can impair a person's abil‐
ity to learn and retain new facts and skills.”
Multi‐tasking, almost by its very nature of
course, creates stress," Grafman says. And long‐term
stress, in turn, is likely to make us less able to multi‐
task, he says. It's a humbling lesson in the limits we
face, he acknowledges. "If you're multi‐ tasking, and
it's very stressful," Grafman says, "you're not going
to get better at it.",
怎样去除压力、倍增你的工作效率
by Narij Naik, M.Pharm.
would not be possible without this amazing power of
your brain.
This is a quality of your subconscious mind.
When a behavior is ingrained into your subconscious
it become automatic, freeing up your conscious mind
to focus on other things, such as eating lunch while
“ Researchers peering into the brains of those en‐
gaged in several tasks at once are concluding
what some overworked Americans had begun to sus‐
pect: that multi‐tasking, which many have embraced
as the key to success, is instead a formula for shoddy
work, mismanaged time, rote solutions, stress and
forgetfulness, not to mention car crashes, kitchen
fires, forgotten children, near misses in the skies and
other dangers of inattention.”
38 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 1, Issue No. 10