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#226 - The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The External and Internal Costs of Multitasking

The urge to multitask is often born of this internal sense of time poverty that many of us feel. And so, you know, it seems like a brilliant idea to be doing two things or more at once. So I guess there's probably a reward component to it, but also just a an anxiety component. We have the internal states like boredom, anxiety, stress, feeling of urgency. And then the technology itself that's designed to game us in a way.

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