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55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind

Inquiring Minds

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Is Multitasking a Pitfall to Avoid?

There's some evidence that multitasking is an illusion. We're not actually doing four or five things at once, but the brain is shifting rapidly from one thing to another. Multitasking doesn't have a place in daily life; we do it so well because we're stressed out. And as a scientist, I just don't think we have any data that weighs on either side of the question.

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