Jim Davies teaches the popular Mysteries of Mind (CGSC 1001) course at 杏吧原创. This article in is about how multitasking is often impossible, but sometimes you should doodle in class:
When somebody can juggle lots of things at the same time, we often say that they are good 鈥渕ultitaskers.鈥� All of us multitask once in a while.
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