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How to Pay Better Attention, With Neuroscientist Dr. Amishi Jha

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

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Is Multi Tasking a Good Idea?

Is it ever a good idea to try to multi task? Or are we just setting ourselves up for even more failure because now we're dividing our attention? If something is attentionally demanding, like language comprehension, you do need to pay attention. Anything that is ettentioally demanding will require our focus to fully absorb it. We're actually never multi tasking when we're trying to do more than one ottentionally demanding thing at one time. Think of those as too ettentionally demands tasks: having people over and conversing, cooking your meal. And i guess my message is essentially, when you can really try to mono task It'll help you be aware of

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