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601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

Update: 2024-09-0511
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Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive. How can we put the — hang on a second, I've just got to get this.


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  • SOURCES:
    • Olivia Grace, senior product manager at Slack.
    • Gloria Mark, professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine.
    • David Strayer, professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah.

 

 

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601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?

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