Multitasking Is Not a Skill, It's an Illusion

David Meyer, Joshua Rubinstein, and Jeffrey Evans proved it in 2001: your brain doesn't run parallel tasks, it rapid-switches between them, and every switch exacts a hidden fee. Sophie Leroy named the residue that lingers when you leave a task unfinished: attention residue, the fog that follows you into your next meeting. Adrian Ward showed that a phone face-down on your desk still drains cognitive resources. The talent you put on your résumé is an illusion with a delayed bill.

You'll learn:

- Why heavy multitaskers filter information worse than light ones

- How a ready-to-return note erases attention residue

- The single test that reveals which task pairings actually work