On this episode, we chat about task switching—how to get better at it, and the costs of switching tasks too often. Topics covered include:

• Why multitasking is so fun;
  
• How often we switch between tasks as we work;
  
• Attentional residue—what it is and how to minimize it;
  
• How task switching affects our working memory;
  
• How meditation clears our working memory;
  
• Our brain’s “novelty bias”;
  
• The multiple levels of multitasking;
  
• The reminders that come from our digital world.
  

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Book: Joan, by Katherine Chen;
  
• Book: My Reading Adventures, by Anne Bogel.
  

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