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You know multitasking
is one of the dangerous myths of our
time
you know we all think we’re so hyper
efficient that we are 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 are just walking
everybody else who is walking and
texting or walking and being on the
phone
thinks 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 so
i remember literally the first day i was
just
walking with a friend and noticing a
beautiful building
round the corner from where i live and
saying to my friend this 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 we have
a responsibility not just for ourselves
but for the generation we are 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 increasing
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’s what we’ve 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.