Read all the three sentence given below.

Did you see anything odd in these sentences. If you have observed these sentences carefully you would have noticed that “the, a, the” is repeated twice in these sentences. If you do not believe me observe it carefully this time. Click hereto view the repetition marked in red. This exercise should have clarified the difference between seeing and observing.

For you to observe you need to be attentive. Attention is a limited resource. Paying attention to one thing necessarily comes at the expense of another. This means we cannot allocate our attention to multiple things at the same time and expect quality output from all of them. Our brain is not good in multitasking.