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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • More than any other organ, the brain is designed to change based on experience, a feature called neuroplasticity.
  • neuroscientist Gary Small

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • This sort of free-associative wandering is essential to the creative process; one moment of judicious unmindfulness can inspire thousands of hours of mindfulness.
  • a question less of pure unwavering focus than of your ability to organize distractions around a central point.
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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • if left uninterrupted, they will most likely interrupt themselves.

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

  • when forced to multitask, the overloaded brain shifts its processing from the hippocampus (responsible for memory) to the striatum (responsible for rote tasks), making it hard to learn a task or even recall what you’ve been doing once you’re done.
    • Will these findings change as the younger generations grow up and becomes part of these studies? Or will this hold true for all human brains? In other words, are we evolving into multitaskers? - on 2009-06-07
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  • when forced to multitask, the overloaded brain shifts its processing from the hippocampus (responsible for memory) to the striatum (responsible for rote tasks), making it hard to learn a task or even recall what you’ve been doing once you’re done.
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