How might neuroergonomics help us deal with mental overload? | Aeon Essays

Working and schooling at home, Miami, Florida, 8 September 2020. Photo by Jayne Gershen/Bloomberg/Getty by Emily Willingham + BIO Working and schooling at home, Miami, Florida, 8 September 2020. Photo by Jayne Gershen/Bloomberg/Getty is an American writer. She is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis (2020) and The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, A User’s Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter (2021). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Edited byPam Weintraub Brought to you by Curio, an Aeon partner Listen to more Aeon Essays here Just about every parent will have a personal version of this scenario, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic: it is evening after a long workday. You are getting dinner started, but it’s like trying to cook in a blizzard. The children are crying, the spaghetti’s boiling over on the stove, your phone starts buzzing with a long-awaited call after a job interview, the doorbell just rang, and you’re the

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