So even just the simple act of closing your eyes allows you to take one massive source of destruction of attention.

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So many of us think that we can split our attention, that we can multitask as the

all popular term, has gained almost like status in our life the idea that we

should be able to multitask you should be able to do two three things at the same time maybe more

throughout the day throughout the week throughout your life but, if you go into studying the mind and

neuroscience, you find out that we can't actually multitask at all. Instead of

multitasking, what our brain is really doing is task switching, moving from one thing

to another to another to another.

And whether we know it or not, whether we think we're good at it or not, there's a huge cost to that.

And that cost is all the attention you lose when you switch from one thing to another.

There's a lot of different research and the research is split in terms of the

exact amount of time it takes you to do it. But even if I give you a really broad range,

think to yourself that it takes anywhere from a third of a second to up to five minutes to switch

between tasks. And what I mean by by switching I mean for your brain to

actually be able to now be fully focused on the other thing you're doing the more

complex the tasks you're switching between the longer it takes so your brain to

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