Wednesday, January 22, 2020

The Gaming Mind (part 3)


If someone seems to truly be multitasking, there is actually something else going on under the hood. One of the tasks that person is performing is actually a habit. Give someone two entirely new tasks to do at once, and they'll falter at both, but ask them to do something new while doing something they've done for years, and you'll see a different result. We are capable of performing many complex actions simultaneously when we have built in layers of habits. Just look at a musician to see this in action: they move their hands and fingers entirely independent of each other while performing a complex series of entirely separate tasks, all while counting complex rhythms, maintaining a consistent pulse, even shaping the music using dynamics, phrasing, articulation, and other musical embellishments. The mind of a gamer has similar capabilities...

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