Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Gaming Mind (part 2)


Micro and macro--managing the small details and the large. In a competitive strategy game, you know how dangerous it is if you lose sight of the bigger picture, but you also know that the people who win are usually those that are experts at micro-managing. Doing both is a feat, and some will claim they possess the ability to multi-task. But multitasking is not what we imagine it to be--our brains cannot equally focus on two things simultaneously. Multitasking is actually the ability to shift focus rapidly back and forth. Yet some might seem as if they truly can multitask, and we see examples of this in our everyday life, like driving while carrying on a conversation over the phone. Despite appearances, though, there is more at work here than you might think...

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