David Epstein
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first heard Sep 2026
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She found people were task switching about every three minutes on average.
And then by I think twenty twelve it was every seventy five seconds and then
By twenty twenty two is every forty five seconds.
And
The trouble is that multitasking is not really possible.
You can talk and walk at the same time.
So if one of the things is an automatic function, then you can, but not between real cognitive tasks.
And two of the most interesting things I think from her work were one, she was monitoring physiological measures and she found that the number of tasks.
Task switches someone made during the day.
predicted their stress as measured by heart rate variability.
And
So this whole area of how attempting a multitask impacts stress was new to me and a little frightening.
And also her finding that we become accustomed.
To a certain
Cadence of interruption.
Where if we're being interrupted by anything all day, whether it's people, whether it's notifications, whatever.
You train your attention so that even if you say, today I have to focus and I put the phone away, you will self-interrupt with intrusive thoughts.
At the rate to which you've become accustomed, as if we have this internal distraction barometer that wants to maintain.
A certain pace.
And I'm like, I found that frightening and I I see that in myself when I'm
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