{"id":43153,"date":"2014-06-20T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/single-tasking-is-a-good-idea.html"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:26:42","slug":"single-tasking-is-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/single-tasking-is-a-good-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Single-Tasking is a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Study after study has shown that humans are just not good at multi-tasking &#8212; certainly not as good as they think they are. While this rarely has tragic consequences (unless one of the tasks is &quot;drive the car&quot;), it&#39;s worth bearing in mind as to overall effectiveness in trying to do well the <i>main<\/i> thing you are trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>And for &quot;you&quot; and &quot;they&quot; above, yeah, pretty much includes &quot;I&quot; and &quot;me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109258622984321091629'>The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KzbxpzKwDXA?version=3&#038;autohide=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;feature=autoshare-u' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/DFnmNc2BnuF' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study after study has shown that humans are just not good at multi-tasking &#8212; certainly not as good as they think they are. While this rarely has tragic consequences (unless one of the tasks is &quot;drive the car&quot;), it&#39;s worth bearing in mind as to overall effectiveness in trying to do well the main thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/single-tasking-is-a-good-idea.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single-Tasking is a good idea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26779,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/my-multi-tasking-mania.html","url_meta":{"origin":43153,"position":0},"title":"My Multi-Tasking Mania!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Mar-12 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. #ddtbReshared post from +Wes ForsterThis totally nails it on the.... 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