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What it turns out is that we think we’re multitasking, but we’re not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we’re doing is doing all these things at once.

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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it’s utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.

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There’s an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don’t make a distinction between the words ‘music’ and ‘dance.’ And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

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April 25, 2024

There’s an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don’t make a distinction between the words ‘music’ and ‘dance.’ And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

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April 25, 2024

If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it’s utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.

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