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The Multitasking Myth: What the Brain Can—and Can’t—Do

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2T 21M
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Engelsk
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Multitasking Myth: What the Brain Can—and Can’t—Do is a clear-eyed, compassionate guide to reclaiming attention in an age that treats it as endlessly divisible. It dismantles the cultural fantasy that doing many things at once is the badge of modern competence and shows, with science and lived experience, why the brain’s powers are brightest when focused, not fractured.

Grounded in cognitive psychology and everyday realities, the book explains how attention actually works: the mind’s spotlight can move quickly, but it cannot genuinely split across demanding tasks. What passes for multitasking is rapid task-switching—each switch incurring hidden tolls in time, accuracy, memory, and energy. From the first chapters, readers learn why errors multiply under divided attention, why working memory falters when overloaded, and how mental residue lingers after each interruption, quietly eroding quality and stamina.

The narrative then widens from laboratory to life. In workplaces, “always-on” cultures mistake movement for progress, privileging responsiveness over results. Meetings proliferate, emails drip, dashboards blink; strategic thinking thins as attention shatters. At home, multitasking wears a kinder mask—care—but extracts the same costs: shallow presence, preventable mistakes, exhausted evenings. On the road, distraction becomes dangerous, revealing the unromantic math that speed multiplied by inattention creates risk. In classrooms, the myth of the “digital native” collapses under evidence: fluency with devices isn’t immunity to cognitive limits, and learning needs undivided time for attention, working memory, and consolidation to do their work.

Rather than scolding, the book offers a humane blueprint for doing better. It reintroduces monotasking as an ethic of depth, not austerity: designing a day so that the mind can descend below surfaces and stay long enough to produce work that doesn’t need apologies.

© 2025 Independently Published (Lydbog): 9798295331862

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Lydbog: 27. september 2025

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