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Hey, I'm Elise Hugh and this is TED Talks Daily.

Darya Long is an emergency room doctor, and ER doctors are heroes.

They've trained for everything, every kind of trauma, from patients who come in gasping for air

to the stress of multi-car pile-ups.

In her talk from TEDx Naperville from 2019, Dr. Long gives us the tricks of her trade

and shows us you too can be as busy as an ER doctor without feeling crazy stressed.

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.

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