Multitasking Crashes Your Brain

Posted On Nov 30 2011 by

Research confirms what you already know. Multitasking doesn’t work to save time and it makes you feel even more frantic.  It doesn’t make you more efficient.  You don’t get more done. And, just between us two, it stresses you out. Multitasking blocks your way to living a life you love, don’t you think?    Here’s the Research   The brain needs to attend to one task at a time. Surprisingly, when measuring neural activity with people doing two tasks at once, the neural activity decreased instead of what you might think. You might think your brain would be processing twice as …