How Multitasking Depletes Your Brain’s Resources — And How to Restore Concentration

Multitasking is a myth, says McGill University Psychology Professor Daniel[image error] Levitin, author of The Organized Mind. Switching concentration across tasks comes at a neurological cost, depleting chemicals we need to concentrate.[image error]

It turns out that multitasking is a myth. We think that we’re doing a whole bunch of things at once. But we’re not actually because the brain doesn’t work that way. In a number of studies now have shown from Earl Miller’s lab at MIT and others that what we’re really doi...