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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
I beg to differ. It depends on the individual. There are people who do not enrich themselves by multitasking.
The richness of my memories comes from my ability to process extra items that most people just dismiss. I have very detailed memories even from when I was 2-3 years old.
If you walk with me in the city, or any place, I will notice more things than you will. I overhear converstations as I'm walking down the street as I'm noticing a restaurant that I'll be making mental notes for future dining. I'll also notice historical and architectual items and small minute details that people with me are amazed that I even saw or found out. A good number of the items listed in http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ I noticed many years ago, and plenty of my fellow native NY'ers never even noticed them even walking past them every day to work.
I had one professor in college get upset with me because I was doodling in her class as she gave a lecture. She claimed that I wasn't taking any notes. I then regurgitated her lecture back to her not word for word, but I hit all the key concepts as I retraced in my head all the points of my drawing and how the correlated to her lecture. I aced all her tests, but she still gave me a B in the class because everyone else took furious notes in her lectures and I did not.
There are times where I need to focus ALL my attention, during work, meetings and the like. I try when interacting with people to minimize any other distractions and actively listen.
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You said that you do better and remember better when you multitask, but what you are saying here is that you are paying
more attention to certain things and less to others. This is exactly what the doc is saying. Many studies have been done like this one and the findings indicate that as we multitask, our concentration must be divided as it is finite, and therefore we lose a certain percentage of some to concentrate on the other.