"That said," he added, "utilizing this new technology is certainly something our brain is not used to, especially for this extended period of time." "We're able to recognize if we're in a social situation versus a non-social situation." Yet when I asked Michael Breus, a board certified sleep specialist and author of "Good Night: The Sleep Doctors 4-week program to Better Sleep and Better Health," what he thought of our now nearly identical work/play format, he was a little more skeptical. Your brain is running from one thing to another, to another, to another, to another. So while you have Zoom open, you also have Twitter open, and 90 other tabs and your email, and your cell phone is sitting there. "Frankly," she added, "people try to multitask. As far as your brain is concerned, that is a work machine."
"It is incredibly rare that somebody has a computer just for Zoom.
"It's inescapable that your brain associates your computer with work," she told me.
#And zoom it real hard full#
If, after a full day of staring at my screen full of little squares of other humans talking to me, I choose to spend my recreational time staring at my screen full of little squares of other humans talking to me, does my brain assume it's still on business time? I called Celeste - on the phone - to ask her more about what's going on here.
Your brain doesn't know the difference between that and sitting down at your computer and working."
#And zoom it real hard how to#
Just one month ago I got on a plane and traveled to another city in another time zone, where I went dining out with people! In a restaurant! Where I talked to large groups! Then got on another airplane! And felt energized by it all! Mere days later I had become a person who asks herself, "How am I going to power through a FaceTime with my cousin?" It didn't add up.īut then I remembered a conversation I had recently with my friend Celeste Headlee, author of "Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Under Living." Celeste was talking about the office hamster wheel, but she noted, "You'll get a 20 minute break at work, and you'll head over to the break room, and you'll scan through your Facebook or your social media, or you'll pull up Zappos and scan through shoes. I was surprised that the Zoom fatigue hit me so hard, and so fast. But I think it's also fair to say that all this teleconferencing, day and night, is murder. Another part of it no doubt stems from trying to do my work and academic studies every day in a small apartment that is also now my spouse's office, my younger daughter's high school (band practice included), and my elder daughter's university. Sure, part of it is the terror and dread that wakes me up at 4:30 every morning. In these difficult hours, I could not be more nourished with companionship. These days, thanks to FaceTime and Zoom, I am having happy hours with my college buddies, cooking Saturday dinner with a former colleague, taking morning walks with a friend in Paris and talking about books with the person I took my first writing class with. Social distancing does not come naturally to the sociably inclined, so it wasn't too long into the home alone era before a great multitude of us simply moved our fraternizing online.
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