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Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?)
The New York Times: Stop what you’re doing. Well, keep reading. Just stop everything else that you’re doing. Mute your music. Turn off your television. Put down your sandwich and ignore that text message. While
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Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century
Financial Times: Forget invisibility or flight: the superpower we all want is the ability to do several things at once. Unlike other superpowers, however, being able to multitask is now widely regarded as a basic
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You’re A Distracted Driver Even When You Ignore That Text
By now, drivers should be well aware of the dangers posed by using a mobile phone while driving. Each day 9 people are killed, and more than 1,153 people are injured in crashes due to
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How the Brains of ‘Super-Multitaskers’ Are Different
New York Magazine: Multitasking, we’ve been told constantly in recent years, is something human beings aren’t naturally good at. Even though technology has given us more opportunities than ever before to, say, work while checking
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We Know Why You’re Always Late
The Wall Street Journal: Chronically late people can be frustrating and baffling to anyone stuck waiting for them. One main explanation for their behavior is deceptively simple, psychologists say: People simply underestimate how long a
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The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas
The Huffington Post: Chances are that at some point in your career, you’ve taken an idea from someone else. I want to know why. There’s a clue in a story about one of the great
