http://adammonsen.com/post/327?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dang-distractions Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://adammonsen.com/post/327/comment-page-1#comment-11758 Forest Monsen Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:51:19 +0000 http://adammonsen.com/post/327#comment-11758 "Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy... Even worse, certain studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress-related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction, prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue, and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term, they may cause it to atrophy." http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking The article isn't that good, except for the second page, IMHO. “Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy… Even worse, certain studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress-related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction, prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue, and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term, they may cause it to atrophy.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking
The article isn’t that good, except for the second page, IMHO.

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