![]() However, if you were driving in downtown Manhattan for the first time - an act requiring a high degree of concentration and alertness - there's no way you could successfully perform two prefrontal cortex tasks with equal competence. In this case, you can multitask because your prefrontal cortex handles the audio listening while your basal ganglia handles the driving. Only when one activity is so familiar and routine that our basal ganglia can handle it almost unconsciously can we perform multiple tasks at once.įor example, if you're used to driving the same route to work, it's not difficult to drive that familiar route while listening to an audio book that requires a moderate level of concentration. Instead, we only task-switch between multiple activities. Rock says our brain can't multitask when the tasks involve the prefrontal cortex - an area of the brain that requires high attention and focus. This translates into stress and frustration. The actors bump into each other and can't move about in graceful harmony. When we multitask, we place more actors on our stage, and if we have too many actors, we become overloaded. The stage can only accommodate so many actors before the play starts to get chaotic. To explain how the brain works, Rock compares the brain to a stage. I found Rock's book particularly interesting, not only for the helpful productivity tips but also because of the insights into the brain. Paul and Emily make poor decisions at first, and then later, when they understand better how the brain works, they make better decisions and find more success in the mock situations. Rock keeps your attention throughout by implementing a narrative conceit involving two people, Paul and Emily, in before-and-after scenarios. Rock's main argument is that by better understanding your brain, you can align the way you work with your brain's tendencies, patterns, and instincts to be more productive and successful. I recently listened to Your Brain at Work, a productivity/neuroscience book by David Rock. ![]() ![]() Academic/Practitioner Conversations Project.Author in DITA and Publish with WordPress.Reflecting seven years later about why we were laid off.A hypothesis about influence on the web and the workplace.
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