If you think of the brains like a studio apartment, so you got one brain, you get the small

constraint space, a lot needs to happen within that.

Now, I'm going to use the studio apartment to make my meal prep for the week.

I'm going to make my great delicious food.

I got my vegetables and chopping supplies all over the whole apartment, but now I've got

to do my taxes.

So I've got to put all that away and get my receipts out and everything like that.

And, you know, I can't have the food mixed in with my materials for my tax preparation.

So then I got to put everything away, organize this, but now I got to go back to making

the food.

That's what we're doing with tax switching to attentionally demanding tasks.

Whatever we engage in, we recalibrate the entirety of information processing.

So now I'm going to switch from one to the other.

There's a time lag.

There's an energetic cost and the chances for mistakes are going to be greater.

Hey folks, welcome back to the Unbeatable Podcast.

This is your host, Mark Devine.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

I appreciate your time and attention, and I don't take it for granted.

I know what's vying for your attention out there.

It's a lot.

So I appreciate you being here.

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