Ever have breakfast while checking your mail? Jump from a business e-mail to Facebook and back? Replied to a text message while having dinner and watching TV? Nowadays, a lot of people are multitasking because it seems like the only way to get everything done. But did you know that "multitasking has a mental price to pay?" Studies show that multitasking greatly affects our focus, response and memory. In a nutshell, it is dumbing us down. But it isn't exactly that easy to just stop multitask...
Read more …Ever have breakfast while checking your mail? Jump from a business e-mail to Facebook and back? Replied to a text message while having dinner and watching TV? Nowadays, a lot of people are multitasking because it seems like the only way to get everything done. But did you know that "multitasking has a mental price to pay?" Studies show that multitasking greatly affects our focus, response and memory. In a nutshell, it is dumbing us down. But it isn't exactly that easy to just stop multitasking with smartphones, iPads, and the internet in general, promoting the deed deemed as the devil to the brain. Our brains have the capability to adapt, and it seems like they are. But for the worse perhaps?
