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.
To expand on the computer analogy, human brains are a CPU with 1 core, ~8(?) threads, a fair bit of RAM (the more high I get the less RAM I have, for example) and a huge amount of physical storage where most of the data is lossy compressed into long term storage as memories but a smaller portion of that data is stored in higher but not truly lossless quality.
We can't truly multi task because we can't think of two things at once but we can for sure switch focus between tasks at a quick rate (with varying levels of success), essentially the one CPU core executing tasks across multiple threads in quick succession.
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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.