How do I stop drowning in dispatch's constant pace?

The calls do not stop. Radio, phone, text, screen — all speaking at once, all demanding an answer now. You feel like you are failing because you cannot process five things in the same instant. That is not weakness. No mind can do that. The pace is not yours to control. Someone else sets it — the number of calls, the number of trucks, the shape of the shift. What is yours to control is the order in which you meet each thing, and whether you let five problems live in your head at once, or put four of them down while you handle the fifth. Most who do this work mistake speed for competence. But speed without order is just noise moving faster. Choose the next single action. Do it. Then choose the next one.