[ExI] the latest on multitasking

[John Grigg]

I'm a sucker for self-improvement books, and the latest trend/subject is on
how to properly focus, and cut out all of the clutter/distractions! Lol

In college I hated it when my roommates would listen to music during study
time, and now this gives me understanding why my brain was complaining.

John

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:22 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> No one can do it.  To show that it can, a subject has to be as good on the
> two tasks when done together as they are when doing each separately.  Women
> are not better at it than men, and both are bad.
>
> Why?  Try listening to music, something a lot of people do when studying
> or working, and not miss a measure while doing your work at the same
> level.  Can't be done.  Yeah, your brain can shut out the music, but even
> that takes brain inhibitory power and you aren't actually doing both
> things.
>
> Amazon has quite a few books on concentration, which you don't need.  It's
> a matter of cutting the clutter out.  So turn off the TV, stereo, radio,
> pull those plugs out of your iPods and ears and actually pay 100% attention
> to what you are doing.  Or try listening to your music without doing
> anything else.  You will hear things you never heard before.  You just
> might surprise yourself at how much quality work you can do now..    bill w
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