“You can do anything, but not everything.” — David Allen
Why do some days feel like a mental slog — even when you’ve done almost nothing?
It’s not laziness. It’s not burnout. It’s something more subtle and invisible:
Mental bandwidth depletion.
Your brain, like a computer, has limited RAM. Every decision, notification, or interruption consumes a bit of it. And when your RAM is full, you crash — emotionally, cognitively, even physically.
