ON TRIAL TODAY: MULTITASKERS Multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. Theyre terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; theyre terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and theyre terrible at switching from one task to another. ....We were at MIT, and we were interviewing students and professors. And the professors, by and large, were complaining that their students were losing focus because they were on their laptops during class, and the kids just all insisted that they were really able to manage all that media and still pay attention to what was important in class -- pick and choose, as they put it. Does that sound familiar to you? Its extremely familiar.... And the truth is, virtually all multitaskers think they are brilliant at multitasking. Whether its rude or not, multitasking is probably ruining your brain. motherjones/kevin-drum/2011/04/its-not-just-rude-its-ruining-your-brain
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:07:51 +0000
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