Think you ’re awe-inspiring at handling 15 AIM conversations , hear to The RZA while watching Robocop , emailing pictures to your mom and working on a project at the office ? Wrong . You soak up so bad that you ’re costing the economy $ 650 billion a year according to analyst Jonathan B. Spira .
Here at Giz , we have it off not to rely just on analyst , but a cognitive scientist and film director of the Brain , Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan agrees . He say , “ Multitasking is going to slow you down , increasing the chances of mistakes . ” Great job , screw - up . evidently , “ a meat limitation [ of your nerveless head ] is an inability to concentrate on two things at once , ” accord to the director of the Human Information Processing Laboratory at Vanderbilt University .
But fear not , a solution is on the way : “ learning ability scan , social networking algorithms and other new tools should aid provide a deep understanding of the point of accumulation and the potential of the human brain , ” so your incarnate taskmasters will soon know how to wring every last drop of work out of it before five group O ’ clock rolls around . Awesome .
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