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So, when you get really busy when you have a lot to do and two little time to do it

when you want to feel really accomplished by doing several things simultaneously, do you multitask?

Can you multitask? Are you good at multitasking?

Well, let's find out once and for all. You ready? You sure? I'd earn the freedom to go wherever I

wanted. My mom congratulated me on the hard work and surprised me with my favorite

ice cream cake. As I took my first bite of the chocolate crunches, my mom

told me that any time I wanted to borrow her

minivan all I had to do was fill out a five-page request form that had over 30

questions on it. I'm so glad my mom treats me like an adult now. So, how did you do? Are you the great wizard of multitasking? Yeah, probably not so good.

In fact, it probably kind of freaked your brain out a bit too, right?

Yeah, and that's what you are doing to your brain all day as you try and quote-on-quote

multitask. Are you wondering why you're so stressed out, so frustrated, so frazzled all the time. Well here's the reality as you just

experienced. You cannot multitask. It is cognitively impossible. Even when you are

trying you are not multitasking. You are just switching from one thing to the other.

If you're watching me now and you're trying to read email, you are not doing both. You are switching between them and cognitively doing both poorly by the way.

When you are switching, your IQ goes down by 10 points.

Now let me give you some perspective on that. When you are stoned, in a mental

drug stupor, your IQ goes down by five. Thus, when you try to multitask, you become twice

as dumb as a stoner, and this is how most people are operating every day.

Not only is it not smart, it's harmful.

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