Executive function is responsible for paying attention, organizing and planning, initiating tasks and focusing on them, and regulating emotions. Surprise, surprise - when my kids close them, my phone works faster. My phone slows to a stop because I have 60 apps running simultaneously. “Dad, look how many apps you have open!” I forget to close them and think it doesn’t matter, but it does. If we think of the brain as a computer processor, then a multitasking brain is like a smartphone with multiple apps open. To deal with the unending stream of information, we divide our attention and multitask, but the efficacy of multitasking is a myth. When I learn something new, I shove a fat penguin off the other side, and that’s the way it goes.” Close Your Apps “You can only fit a certain number of penguins on an iceberg. “Well, information - look at it like an iceberg,” he replied. I thought, The amount of information this guy stores in his brain is amazing, so I asked him, “How do you remember everything you need to know?” And he said, “You know, Joe, it’s like penguins on an iceberg.”
#Penguin on iceberg how to#
He is constantly training and filling his brain with new information: how to operate in different climates, at different altitudes, on different teams, and with different skillsets. My friend Chuck is a pararescueman (PJ) in the U.S. Our generation suffers from infobesity, and it’s damaging our ability to focus.
Somebody once told me, “The brain is an amazing processor but a terrible storage device.” Yet we consume more and more information every day, and this unending stream overloads our brains.
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