How attention works: why you can miss a gorilla in plain sight
Task switching: why doing two things at once is slower
Answer texts while you do something with your hands, and it feels like doing both at once. A stopwatch says something else.
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You put a candle in, read a text, type an answer, put a candle in, read the next text. It feels like doing both at once.
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Yet the twenty candles take you far longer than twenty candles should, and the text you just sent says: "Turn left at the candle."
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