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881: How to Find Focus, Fight Distraction, and Boost Your Attention Span with Dr. Gloria Mark

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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The Implications of Multitasking

The idea of multitasking is a myth. Humans cannot perform two things at the same time. What we are doing is shifting our attention rapidly between different tasks. We leave a residue, we increase stress, what are some of the other implications? Another really bad implication is that switching attention so fast leads to errors. So there can be very serious consequences to multitasking.

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