{"id":431,"date":"2007-10-13T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/10\/13\/do-you-have-a-multi-threaded-mind\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T19:49:44","slug":"do-you-have-a-multi-threaded-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a multi-threaded mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here and write this I&#8217;m also listening to music and following along with it. I&#8217;m sure we all do it, this is no amazing feat. To some people the additional input forces you to focus. For others, it&#8217;s distracting. For me, I feel like I can pay attention to what I&#8217;m doing <em>and<\/em> the music simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>\tPerhaps this comes with growing up in the multi-tasking generation. But I find myself able to do a few things at the same time and remain focused. For example, I can be singing a song stuck in my head while thinking about the spreadsheet in front of me. If I&#8217;m working on something and need to remember a number I can repeat it in my head while still thinking about the task at-hand.<\/p>\n<p>\tIs this weird? Is this others feel like they have or can do? I wonder if I have some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thread_(computer_science)\">multi-threaded mind<\/a>. I&#8217;m obviously not doing two immediate things at the same instance, but to me two things happening very quickly can be indistinguishable.<\/p>\n<p>\t<em>Update:<\/em> A few minutes of more searching and <a href=\"http:\/\/sandeepranade.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/multi-threaded-brain.html\">it appears this is how our brains are built<\/a>. I always knew I could walk and chew gum but can you personally hold two thoughts at the same time in your mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here and write this I&#8217;m also listening to music and following along with it. I&#8217;m sure we all do it, this is no amazing feat. To some people the additional input forces you to focus. For others, it&#8217;s distracting. For me, I feel like I can pay attention to what I&#8217;m doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}