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Multitasking

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…as one British study found, multitasking makes you stupid – dumber than getting stoned.

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Though it’s a popular notion that women’s brains are wired to multi-task and men’s to compartmentalize, neuroscientists have found that’s patently untrue.

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…women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once… they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.

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According to brain research, true multi-tasking does not actually exist.

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The evidence is indisputable… those who think they are more productive because they are better at multitasking are just wrong. What they are better at is being distracted.

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…there is no such thing as multitasking.

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If the virtual gives us a limitless array of alternative spaces to inhabit, then multitasking seems to hand us a new way to reap time.

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When we multitask, we are like swimmers diving into a state of focus, resurfacing to switch gears or reassess the environment, then diving again to resume focus.

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Relying on multitasking as a way of life, we chop up our opportunities and abilities to make big-picture sense of the world and pursue our long-term goals.

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…multitasking is essentially the juggling of interruptions, the moment when we choose to or are driven to switch from one task to another.

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