Unfortunately, the ill effects created by an entire childhood of multitasking may be irreversible, severely impairing one’s ability to focus as an adult. The brain is more “plastic” than “elastic,” meaning that it’s malleable and adaptable in the developmental stages of childhood. However, once hardened it becomes more difficult to change as an adult. Heavy multitaskers have trained their brains to constantly search for alternative stimuli. By doing this they neglect the regions of their brains designed to focus. Eventually, and with enough neglect, these regions of the brain wither, and die.
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