Multitasking Isn't Progress—It's What Wild Animals Do for Survival

“Multitasking Isn’t Progress—It’s What Wild Animals Do for Survival”

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• Author: Ted Gioia
• Full Title: “Multitasking Isn’t Progress—It’s What Wild Animals Do for Survival”
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• URL: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/multitasking-isnt-progressits-what?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Highlights

• Fewer things are more destructive than a dead-end concept. They are much like dead-end roads—they take you on a trip to nowhere. They provide an illusion of motion, but actually bring you further away from any useful destination.
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• I’d add one more comment: I suspect that solutions here demand a kind of counterculture capable of resisting the monolithic mindsets causing burnout—and the sad fact is there is no genuine counterculture right now. It was once fashionable to opt out from the groupthink and reconstruct your own life in a free-spirited or even openly dissident way. But the groups and power brokers have gotten less tolerant of dissent nowadays, and it’s harder to find a space for self-invention outside their purview.