March 24, 2017 at 05:54PM

"Contrary to popular wisdom, there is no such thing as 'multitasking'" #readingToday

Contrary to popular wisdom, there is no such thing as "multitasking": the human mind has only a single channel of attention and can therefore only focus on one job at a time. Any impression of multitasking given by your awesome office administrator, your spouse, or the president is simply a result of his or her brain's rapidly toggling between different tasks without messing up.

Siddhartha's Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment" by James Kingsland -

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