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The Neuroscience of Productivity – Dr Gabija Toleikyte, PhD

The Weekend University

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The Limits of Your Working Memory

Over 90% of people can't multitask, which means that we have so-called the limits of our working memory. In this graph, it's actually depicted how much time we lose by switching between tasks. So on this axis, we see number of projects, one to five, and here is how much timeWe spend working on that task in blue. And in red is the time we waste for just switching. We get impression that it's possible because we can switch quite quickly,. But unfortunately, we keep on losing quite a lot of time.

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