Excessive Multitasking Damages Your Brain

When mindfulness doesn’t help, you need mechanisms for self-control

Jun Wu
Jun Wu
Jan 30 · 6 min read

A mom friend said to me recently, “You know, I thrive on multitasking. I have this ADHD brain where I focus better in chaos.” I nodded in agreement. I mean I worked on the trading floor for 7 years simply because I was a multitasker. My ADHD brain functioned well. I focused like a…

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