I’d go apeshit, I’m sure, if I actually listened to the podcast itself but based upon this description from MeFi I’d just like to suggest that if this speaks to you, keep the premise in mind in other contexts, such as when interacting with people already under various types of increased cognitive load—whether from, say, the nature of neurodivergence or from, say, the “nurture” of white supremacy.
Business coach Alexis Rockley is pushing back against the idea that we must always be doing something productive or improving ourselves. She says it is unrealistic to believe we should all master new skills during quarantine, because quarantine and the current environment are continual stressors that cognitively exhaust us.
Emphasis added because this is true for many different kinds of people for many different kinds of reasons even when there is not a pandemic.