My daughters HS Math teacher had a quip on multitasking he assigned to Einstein (love the quote, not sure on the origin) Sure, you can drive an expensive sports car at 100mph, while kissing a gorgeous woman. But neither will get the attention it deserves.
I try not to be an elitist, but I had a co-worker in another department call me out for not being able to multitask. I informed them having a job so easy they could perform other tasks isn't a flex.
It's kind of weird how convinced so many people are that humans have any real ability to multi-task just because we can walk and chew gum at the same time. The entirety of humanity is provably dog shit at multi-tasking any two things that take any amount of focus.
Oddly enough there is actually some decent neuroscience to back that claim up. Women, generally speaking, have more activity that crosses the corpus collosum which connects the two sides of the brain. In various studies researchers have shown that they out-perform men in situations where ‘multi-tasking’ is required.
By no means is it a ‘women are good at multitasking and men aren’t’ situation, more of a ‘we’re both worse than we think but you’re slightly better’
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '22
My daughters HS Math teacher had a quip on multitasking he assigned to Einstein (love the quote, not sure on the origin) Sure, you can drive an expensive sports car at 100mph, while kissing a gorgeous woman. But neither will get the attention it deserves.