{"id":1740,"date":"2010-07-19T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2010-07-19T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:35:09","slug":"the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitasking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways. At the most basic level, the mental balancing acts that it requires\u2014the constant switching and pivoting\u2014energize regions of the brain that specialize in visual processing and physical coordination and simultaneously appear to shortchange some of the higher areas related to memory and learning. We concentrate on the act of concentration at the expense of whatever it is that we\u2019re supposed to be concentrating on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2007\/11\/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers\/6342\/\">The Autumn of the Multitaskers<\/a> by Walter Kirn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways. At the most basic level, the mental balancing acts that it requires\u2014the constant switching and pivoting\u2014energize regions of the brain that specialize in visual processing and physical coordination and simultaneously appear to shortchange some of the higher areas related to memory and learning. We concentrate on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/the-autumn-of-the-multitaskers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Multitasking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,39,76,97,99,147],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-counseling","tag-crap","tag-growth","tag-leadership","tag-listening","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}