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Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest Fear

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The desire to multi-task is rooted in the fear of death. This may sound lofty, but if you take a moment to explore it, you’ll find that this is true. Let’s start from the beginning. We are all born into existence, and almost immediately, we use our senses to interact with the contents of the world. We touch. We smell. We see, but barely. The senses are the hardware that feed information into the mind: our software. That operating system, however, will be in beta mode for quite a while. Neurons and synapses still have to be developed and connected before the OS is ready for primetime, and even after it goes online, it will continuously need updates before the frontal cortex fully develops around age 25. But somewhere along the way, the mind frees itself from the hardware it relied upon, and something amazing happens. It develops the capacity to think, and can do so without corresponding sensory input. In other words, a thought can form without the body experiencing the contents of that

Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest Fear Archive ↓ Best Posts All Posts Recent Posts Newsletter Book Courses ↓ Thinking In Stories The Examined Writer Reflections Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest Fear By Lawrence Yeo The desire to multi-task is rooted in the fear of death. This may sound lofty, but if you take a moment to explore it, you’ll find that this is true. Let’s start from the beginning. We are all born into existence, and almost immediately, we use our senses to interact with the contents of the world. We touch. We smell. We see, but barely. The senses are the hardware that feed information

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