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#226 — The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Multi Tasking

Multi tasking is something that we're all familiar with, and feel like we're really pretty good at. It's also most people feel sort of pleasure in multi-tasking - it's more fun than single tasking. But for so many other tasks, there is a zero sum contest between things that we attend to. We can just talk about the limits of cognition here, and the actual effects of multi task on our brains.

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