Do you know why you ca n’t concentrate on one thing at a time ? Why you ca n’t get engaged with your family ? Why you ask to learn your email every five minutes ? Because gadget and multitasking are screwing up your brain .
According to this lengthyNY Times article , our brains just are n’t wired for the amount of distraction that gizmo have deliver us with . They equate digital distractions to food and sex activity ; we need ’em in moderation , but too much is speculative for job .
There are some decent interactive tests that will estimate your focus and power to multitask . Spoiler alert : you have trouble focusing but are pretty good at multitasking .
Hell , I can sort of feel what the clause is sing about . A lot of the time I ’ll part a undertaking and , when near completion , get distracted by another window . A hearty clump of time will go by before I realize and retrieve that other matter I was supposed to be doing .
So here I a
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