but listening to a podcast or dictating a new piece of content. Or, you’re exercising while also watching a TedTalk. And, you always drop whatever you’re doing to respond to smartphone notifications. Here is the myth of multitasking. ...
is the myth of multitasking. Research shows that when you try to do two things at once, you only do one of them–or you do both of them, but your total productivity goes down. (You would get everything done in less time if you did things one at a time.) Yet most people stubbornl...
Closely related to the myth of the digital native is the pervasive myth that people can multitask. The digital native myth deals primarily with the naturally occurring (i.e., not learned) acquisition by a generation of children of the metacognitive skills necessary for a multitude of learning ...
Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask. You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while y...