Chapter 8. Reaching and Dealing with Cognitive Bandwidth
WHEN YOU’RE STRUGGLING with overload and feel like you’re losing it, on the edge, not able to remember things, and totally stressed out, you may have reached the end of what we call your cognitive bandwidth. Whereas you have a built-in capacity to meet complex challenges and opportunities through the use of the functions of the prefrontal cortex of the brain, there can be times when literally too much information overloads the system. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with you; it’s just that the actual amount of information you’re attempting to handle or process through the twelve brain functions has exceeded the capacity of those functions. This causes your frontal lobes to effectively ...
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