When people tell me that they’re great at multitasking my usual response is to ask them never to take up brain surgery. Nobody really wants a neurosurgeon who claims to be able to do more than one thing at a time. I want the person with the scalpel full on, one subject only, one thoughtContinue reading “The multitasking illusion (or the modern world is bad for your brain).”
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Thw Monday Morning Quote #307
Less of a quote than a dialogue. Henry Thoreau (to Ralph Waldo Emerson): “The key to living well is to simplify, simplify, simplify”. Emerson: “one simplify might have sufficed.” Thanks to Philip Humbert.