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#628 - Dr K Healthy Gamer - Why Are We All So Addicted To Our Screens?

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Simplicity

A lot of the work that I've done, a lot of the conversations that I've had, Adam Alta, who wrote Irresistible, is that can computer brain interfacing, stuff like that, but from a psychological side. And every single person I've spoken to about attention says people believe that they can multitask. First off, you can't. Secondly, what you think that you mean by multitasking isn't multitasking, it's parallel processing. And you definitely can't do that. You can maybe task switch and lose a ton of focus whilst task switching, but you definitely can’t parallel process. You can drive and talk, but you're not thinking

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