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This Working Life · Sunday · 25 min

What work is doing to your brain

How is your grey matter doing? Are you digitally overloaded? Spinning out even thinking about another notification? Our brains weren't designed to operate in the modern workplace and it is showing. Lisa dives into the cranial folds to figure out what your workplace is doing to your brain, and what you can do about it. Guest: Professor Selena Bartlett, Group Leader for Neuroscience at Queensland University of Technology and the author of multiple books. Her most recent is Thriving Minds in the Age of AI – the Brain Science of Thinking Clearly and Living Well ====== You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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How is your grey matter doing? Are you digitally overloaded? Spinning out even thinking about another notification?  

Our brains weren't designed to operate in the modern workplace and it is showing.  

Lisa dives into the cranial folds to figure out what your workplace is doing to your brain, and what you can do about it.   

Guest:

  • Professor Selena Bartlett, Group Leader for Neuroscience at Queensland University of Technology and the author of multiple books. Her most recent is Thriving Minds in the Age of AI – the Brain Science of Thinking Clearly and Living Well  

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You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. 

Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you! 

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