Phil Hopley: Proportionality is the key to reducing pressure

Estimates show that we're now processing double the amount of information on a daily basis that we would've done twenty years ago. Now our brain capacity has not grown, but the amount of information that's coming in to us is really significantly climbing. A lot of people that work in pressured environments have this sense and it comes from a mind trap, a bit of faulty thinking, that unless they respond instantaneously or very, very quickly, they will somehow be judged negatively - now that is not necessarily the case - sometimes it may be - but generally speaking not. So if we set up these expectations, what we're doing in that situation is we're putting even more pressure on ourselves, we're increasing the stress even more, hence the importance of keeping things in proportion.

Phil Hopley, Psychiatrist

Interview via Harvey Thorneycroft
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