I read an article the other day where a college professor said he didn't mind if his students surfed the internet during his lectures. He said, "That's the way they listen".
And I just got an e-mail from my just-out-of-college daughter where she spoke of having her ipod headphones in and can still concentrate easily doing research on the computer at work.
I, an old fogée, find this a bit strange, though not unbelievable. What do the rest of you say?
Right brained people like artists have no trouble multi-tasking like that. I used to sketch my professors whilst listening to their lectures and found it helped me take in more, not less, of what they were saying, presumably because it distracted the right brain and enabled the left brain to focus better on the analysis of the words. I suspect the same is true for those oriented towards musical rather than visual arts.
Women, of course, also have multi-tasking brains. They can talk and do ANYTHING else at the same time.
Are you right or left brained?
Right or Left Brained? I'm both.
