The myth of multitasking

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The myth of multitasking

Thu, 01/26/2023 - 14:30
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We have all heard of multitasking. I am here to tell you all these years of “multitasking” have been a myth. Multitasking is not an actual real thing. Hard claim, I know. Do not worry, it is a lot to hear. Considering how our brain and body are connected, the attention span cannot directly perform two or more actions at once. Multitasking means we are doing more, right? Wrong. University of Michigan Professor of Psychology Dr. David Meyer said we simply don’t have the brainpower to multitask. “As long as you’re performing complicated tasks that require the same parts of the brain and you need to devote all that capacity for these tasks, there just aren’t going to be resources available to add anything more,” Meyer said. You may begin to acknowledge the myth and think multitasking is only limited to doing two things at once. Multitasking can appear within three forms. Multitasking, context switching and attention residue. You may be thinking they are all the same but in reality,…

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