"Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival"
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"Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival"
“We did not evolve to be so much, do so much, or process so much information. And when a person is met with more obligations than they could ever reasonably meet, their typical response is to push themselves even harder at first, feeling lazier and lazier as their to-do list only grows in length, before ultimately collapsing in exhaustion.”
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I often only feel I have worked enough if, at the end of the day, I am bone-tired and wrung out. The team who designed the original Macintosh computer wore T-shirts boasting WORKING 90 HOURS A WEEK AND LOVING IT! This could be the insane slogan for our professional class. Many of us have built our identities around working to the point of exhaustio
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