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    Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.

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      Nobody can multi task. I wish this stupid myth would die.

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        “I’m good at multitasking” is just another way of saying you can’t focus on one thing at a 🐿️ SQUIRREL!

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        Multi-tasking should rightly be called “context switching”. Your brain is alternating its focus between two things in extremely quick succession.

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          Can I tune my brain scheduler?

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            Yes, sadly it is running in Windows Task Scheduler.

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        Can’t upvote this enough, I have had ppl literally bragging to me about their ability to “multi-task” 🙄

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          Or you hate when ppl can walk, talk and eat at same time

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              Ew you can’t multitask

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        I have ADHD and have the opposite problem most of the time - I can’t keep myself on one thing.

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        What about the left brain right brain simultaneous use, like people drawing two pieces of art at once or like how I can walk and be on my phone while being completely aware of my surroundings.

        Sometimes my brain is thinking in one space and my body is doing another. Like I hit auto pilot and stepped away from the cabin, yet the plane is still flying.

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        Its pretty funny how people will take a single low-population college paper over the evidence of their own experience.

        I multitask daily, I have to it’s part of my job.

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          It depends on the definition I guess. I would consider driving a car to be multitasking. But doing three different office tasks on my laptop feels more like context switching as someone dubbed it here.

          But I’m just some dude it’s not like I’ve read any papers on it but that’s what it feels like for me.

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            Well I guess anything can mean whatever you want with that statement.

            Good luck understanding objective reality tho. But at lest you’ll never be wrong or be required to call your assumptions into question.

            Must be nice.

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      That should be no surprise. They have been designed to be purposefully addictive.

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        What should have been a tool was designed to be a trap, because greed.

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        That would be TV

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      Where I live older people don’t know how turn on phone. They watch tv instead. Those who have some sanity left also go outside, sit on benches, talk with each other and keep your bike from being stolen.