That’s why Multi-tasking is somewhat of myth, because it just | Golden Books™

That’s why Multi-tasking is somewhat of myth, because it just means you are playing ‘red-light green-light’ in your hippocampus and WM. When you jump from thing to thing, your neural traffic loses speed, gets disorganized, and degrades your best learning and memory.

Just like real traffic, the more stoplights you add in, the slower everybody goes. What’s more, anxiety and stress multiply quickly in congested, stop-go traffic, right? So, now your brain's emotional stress regions are activated and added into the ‘traffic.’

What’s amazing about WM and your brain, is that when you have done your best at one task, your other ideas [problems] tasks are there waiting for their turn and your full attention. So if you want your thinking, learning and memory to be tip-top, avoid those traffic jams that come from racing thoughts and jumping from thing to thing. Best wishes to task-masters, everywhere.