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Your brain doesn't really multitask

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You are not a productivity god; you are just giving yourself neurological whiplash. The human brain physically cannot process two high-level cognitive tasks simultaneously. When you try to answer emails while in a Zoom meeting, your brain is just frantically toggling between the two, aggressively burning glucose and dropping your effective IQ by ten points.

Your brain doesn't really multitask
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