You Can’t Multitask, So Stop Trying (2010)

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Huh? Why can't we? My mom's been doing this for I believe the moment I was born? What do you expect the definition of multi-tasking? Doing one other task with two hands at the same time?

Even doing just one job, you are multi-tasking. How about me typing, I'm not just typing these words by my mind, I use it with my hand. So just the basic thought of that, I'm multi-tasking.

I can't even comprehend how can one can't multi-task. Even when you walk, you're not just walking, you're also balancing that's also a multi-tasking I believe.

Typing with your hands while thinking with your brain is a different kind of multi-tasking to walking down the street while using your eyes to stare at a screen when you should be using your eyes to look where you are going.

Or worse, driving your car. A friend was recently almost killed by someone texting at the wheel :(

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