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So I want to talk about multitasking today. And specifically, if it may possibly be undermining your marriage or relationship for that

matter.

I wrote a bit about multitasking in one of my books from like 10 years ago.

After I had written, sorry, after I had read a book called The Myth of Multitasking by Dave

Crenshaw, which I highly recommend.

I mean, it was written a while.

It was written back in, I guess, 10 years ago, but it's obviously just as relevant today, maybe more so.

But the message of his book is that, was that, the human brain is like a computer,

that it's only capable of focusing on one thing at a time.

And switching back and forth between different, or among, I should say, different tasks,

a whole myriad of different tasks, cannot overcome the brain's inability

to process two sets of information simultaneously.

And that what people are really doing when they're attempting to multitask is switch-tasking.

That's what he calls it.

Or moving back and forth between one task and another, never really completing one successfully in the way that you would, of course,

if you were singularly focused.

And so therefore, the entire concept of multitasking, which we talk about all the time,

like it's just normal, is actually a myth.

Now, I know what you're probably thinking. Hmm, well, I multitask every day, all day, so what does this mean? And how do we not do that, given our new world? So I want to

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