We all have the same mistaken intuitions about those limits, and we can try and overcome them use unity through humility. One thing that we directly recommend is put your phone away when you're driving. Doctors are all now carrying phones aroud the hospital. They'r gettig distracted. Nurses have it even worse; they're dealing with multiply patients at a time. You can actually compensate for using external memory by using something like check lists.
In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast we discuss attention and interview co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla" Daniel Simons. Also, at the end, we eat an Oreo fudge cookie brownie and discuss the foreign language effect.
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