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Resist multitasking!

Resist multitasking!

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"multitasking... is a powerful and diabolical illusion... When people think they’re multitasking, they’re actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there’s a cognitive cost... "multitasking... can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking ... creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus ... the very brain region we need to rely on for staying on task is easily distracted... cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot‑smoking... learning information while multitasking causes the new information to go to the wrong part of the brain." Not convinced yet? There's more: - Why the modern world is bad for your brain | Science | The Guardian

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The above notes were curated from the full post www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload.

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