860: Multitasking and Anxiety

Gina discusses the important topic of how multitasking can contribute substantially to our anxiety. Contemporary technology such as the phone and PC compound the threat of multitasking in our lives as our attention is so easily pulled in many directions all at once. Listen in to learn how multitasking hurts our state of mind and how to reduce our tendency to multitask.

Show Notes

In today's episode, Gina discusses the important topic of how multitasking can contribute substantially to our anxiety. Contemporary technology such as the phone and PC compound the threat of multitasking in our lives as our attention is so easily pulled in many directions all at once. Listen in to learn how multitasking hurts our state of mind and how to reduce our tendency to multitask.

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https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html

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What is anxiety?

Quote:

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

-Susan Cain

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