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| Thought this was an interesting critique of multi-tasking, which is something that we yogis seem to be training to avoid.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking |
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| Very interesting.
I'm actually teaching a time management program this month. I'll borrow this link for their additional reading materials.
Jonathon
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| The title explains it all really...
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One MAN’S odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity.
 
Fee
Edited by Orbilia 2008-01-29 5:36 AM
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| So it's a man thingie huh? I can live with that, being a man and all.... |
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| I thought it was common knowledge that men don't multitask (well)?
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| scientific american had an article some time back about the ability to multitask as it developed in mothers. the actual idea is that mothers were more 'intellegent.'
based on studies of rats, mother rats out preformed male and non-mother female rats. while the males and non-female rats traveled alone through mazes looking for food, the mother rats also had the consider their children. The mother rats had faster times by far, even though they had to protect and guide themselves and young through a maze, find the food, and find safety both on the path to the food and on the way back to their "shelter." for those mothers whose babies could not move from the nest area, she would get to the food and back faster than all of the other rats.
after looking at these rats brains (via necropsy), the mother rats had more wrinkles in their brains, believed to be related to level of intelligence and thus the ability to multitask (care for young while finding food).
i think that multitasking is a real skill--and one that can be learned and can be useful. but, i also know that sometimes 'multitasking' is simply a buzzword for "finding distraction" or "seeking distraction" and therefore one of those aspects that does "dumb us down."
Edited by zoebird 2008-01-29 1:48 PM
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Article on Multi-tasking
