
268. What's Essential: David Allen on Getting the Right Things Done (Replay)
The Greg McKeown Podcast
Your head is a bad office
Cognitive science research has shown that the human mind is not designed to handle remembering, reminding, prioritizing, and managing relationships with more than two or four things. Attempting to juggle more than two items in your mind can lead to a decrease in cognitive function, highlighting that the human brain is not an efficient office space for handling multiple tasks simultaneously.
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