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You know multitasking is one of the
dangerous myths of our time you know we
all think were so hyper efficient that
we’re doing two things at once and all
the modern neuroscience tells us that in
fact multitasking is a complete modern
myth it’s actually task-switching it’s
one of the most stressful things we can
do and it robs us of the ability to
experience life and to be present trust
me I’ve been a culprit for so many years
when I stopped for example walking down
the streets of Soho where I live and
instead and being on my phone or texting
at the same time and just started
walking I discovered two things first of
all if you’re just walking everybody
else who is walking and texting or
walking and being on the phone things
you are not important enough and it’s
your job to get out of the way because
clearly if you have the time to just
walk you must be a very insignificant
member of the human race
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so I remember literally the first day I
was just walking with a friend and
noticing a beautiful building around the
corner from where I live and saying to
my friend is building is gorgeous when
did it go up and she said 1930
so I wonder what else have I been
missing during all those years of
incredibly quote-unquote productive
multitasking and I don’t know if you’re
following all the news about all the
accidents even deaths of people who are
walking and texting or walking or
driving and texting and this constantly
growing explosion of a totally
distracted civilization and the
casualties are increasingly our children
so every responsibility not just for
ourselves but for the generation were
bringing up because children are
becoming so addicted to their phones
that mental health numbers are
skyrocketing especially among teenage
girls a 33 percent increase in
depression increase in anxiety in
suicides so we need to recognize that
while machines and software need to
minimize downtime that’s what we try to
do that sort of been trying to do since
the first Industrial Revolution now that
we’re in the fourth Industrial
Revolution we need to come to terms with
the fact that the human operating system
is different that in the human operating
system downtime is a feature not a bug.