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Welcome to Ted Health. I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Unger-Liter.

In today's episode, we're going to hear from ER Doctor Daria Long

on how to apply the same triage skills used by emergency room staff to prioritize your everyday tasks.

If that sounds a little intimidating, don't worry.

Stay tuned to see how Dr. Long breaks it all down to help you successfully navigate your to-do list with minimal stress.

And if you consider yourself a multitasker, stick around after the talk to hear the surprising science of what happens in our brains and bodies when we multitask,

and whether it's actually good for our to-do lists.

Hey, it's Adam Grant. The new season of my Ted Podcast's Work Life is out now.

The past few years have been full of changes to how we work. There's so much more we can rethink about our jobs.

Join me as I dive into the science of making work not suck.

This season, we'll explore how to fix your meetings, bust bureaucracy, and make the most out of your breaks and vacations.

Listen to Work Life with Adam Grant, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Raise your hand, and be honest, if you've used the phrase crazy busy to describe your day, your week, your month,

I'm an emergency room doctor, and crazy busy is a phrase you will never hear me use.

And after today, I hope you'll stop using it too.

Here's why you cannot afford to use crazy to describe your busy.

Because when we are in what I refer to as crazy busy mode, we are simply less capable of handling the busy.

Here's what happens. Your stress hormones rise and stay there. Your executive function in the prefrontal cortex declines.

That means your memory, your judgment, your impulse control, deteriorate, and the brain areas for anger and anxiety are activated.

Do you feel that? Here's the thing. You can be as busy as an emergency department without feeling like you're crazy busy.

How? By using the same tactics that we use, our brains all process stress in similar fundamental ways.

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