The neuroscience of why you’re always feeling behind at work

People think they’re short on hours, but research shows they’re actually trapped in a distorted internal timeline shaped by stress.

We talk about time at work as if it’s a fixed resource: something outside of us and something we either “manage well” or “never have enough of.” People genuinely believe the clock is the problem. But the more you look at how the brain processes experience, the less true this becomes.