It’s not that the urge to multitask is anything new. One study of drivers found only 2.5 percent of people showed no performance decrease when attempting two tasks at once. The rest of us just end up doing everything worse. Yet the pressure to multitask can still often seem like something imposed on us from outside. Burdened by so many demands at work, you can feel as though you’ve no choice but to split your attention among them.

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Persons: It’s, ” Nietzsche, ” We’ve, You’ve, Patanjali, Jordan Raynor, God — Organizations: Technological