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When multitasking erases the experience of living

I eat lunch at my desk every day while answering emails and I cannot taste the food and I think I have forgotten how to do one thing at a time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Simultaneous activities can prevent full engagement with any single experience, creating a life of partial presence.

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