Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Too Drunk to Realize it

I recently read some research about the negative impact that multi-tasking has on our performance. It has been proven that multi-tasking deteriorates our performance, yet most of us think that it doesn't. This particular research looked into why we don't realize our lower performance. The bottom line is that one of the things that multi-tasking deteriorates is our ability to gage our own performance! Something similar happens to people when they are drunk: they underestimate the impact of the alcohol on, for example, their driving ability, because the alcohol impairs their ability to measure their own abilities.

Who knows Ruben Blades' song Decisiones?

El borracho está convencido que a él 
el alcohol no le afecta los sentidos, 
por el contrario, 
que sus reflejos son mucho más claros 
y tiene más control. 

Por eso hunde el pie en el acelerador 
y sube el volumen de la radio 
para sentirse mejor (bien chevere). 
Y cuando la luz cambiando a amarilla, 
las ruedas del carro chillan 
y el tipo se cree un James Bond, 
decide la luz del semáforo comerse 
y no ve el truck aparecerse en la oscuridad. 

Pito, choque y la pregunta 
"¿Qué pasho?" 
Pa’ la eternidad 

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