i got this amazing little snippet from tim ferriss’s blog (and a very interesting piece too, i might add)…
“A recent study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours—more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana.”
i don’t know about you, but this is rather disturbing and reinforces the need to avoid multitasking at all costs… if for no other reason than it makes you dumb.
conversely, i wonder if not checking your email makes you 10 points smarter?! :-)