Why Multitasking Weakens Our Self-Control

Multitasking makes us better at being distracted and weakens self-control.

• Research shows that multitasking undermines performance, increases mistakes, and prevents deep learning.
• The more we multitask, the worse we tend to be at it.
• Multitasking undermines our ability to weed out the irrelevant. Everything feels like a priority.

Yet, many people are waking up to the essential importance of attention and prepare effective responses to improve the quality of attention.