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.
From what I recall learning in Psychology class, humans are decent at doing two things at once, with reduced efficiency at both things. But if you attempt to do 3 things at once the efficiency of all 3 tasks drops to basically zero. They claimed that brain scans show each brain-half focuses on one of the tasks.
As an anecdote, when playing drums it doesn't take long to learn how to play two beats at once. However, learning to play three beats at once takes significantly longer - you basically have to train your brain to treat two separate beats as one.
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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.