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Interrupted and distracted: Johann Hari wants you to regain your attention

Life Examined

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You Can't Do More Than One Thing at a Time

The human brain has not significantly changed in forty thousand years. The average American tinage now believes they can follow six or ven forms of medea at the same time. When you try and do more than one thing at a time, you will do all the things you're trying to do much less competently. You'll make more mistakes,. You'll be much less creative. And when you hear that, remember thinking, i cant yo hout to get it. But that's a small effect, right? This is a really big effect.

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