Multitasking?

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"Switching from task to task, you think you're actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you're not,” said neuroscientist Earl Miller. There have been countless experiments conducted regarding people's ability to multitask; but in reality you, and everyone else in the world, have never multitasked before. For the human brain it is physically impossible to think about more than one thing at a time. Instead your brain switches back and forth from different ideas, and the faster your brain can switch the better at “multitasking” you are said to be. In fact, sea creatures, such as the dolphins, octopuses, and some fish, are among the only creatures who can multitask and be able to pay attention to the quality of both activities.

My dad once told me about how he once met a man playing guitar in Mexico who said that when he plays he physically can’t think of anything else. This is the case in many situations. If you are doing something fast enough or with enough effort and thought, then, for the moment, that will be all that you know. This would explain why whenever your super angry, sad, or excited about something you aren’t able to focus on anything else because you’re not allowing your brain enough time to switch to something else. The reverse of this could be some good advice though. Let’s say something is really bothering you; to get your mind off of it do something that you know will take up all of your attention. That something could be a movie, an instrument, a sport, or any other activity. Whatever your “something” is, the fact that you physically can’t think of two things at once has so much potential, and can also explain so many things. I hope you weren’t too focused on something else while reading this...

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