EPISODE 161
Tactical ADHD: Managing Attention

Situational awareness demands focus and selective attention. Sometimes playing on your phone can help, and sometimes it can kill you. Most people can’t multitask as well as they think, but Mike and Jim will give you strategies to outmatch your enemy and avoid becoming a LUMP.
FAA Task Management White Paper
Aviation Week article on Compartmentalization
Wiki Page Eastern Flight 401
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons:
The Invisible Gorilla video
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