Multi Tasker?
I have always said that i was an awesome multi tasker….that i can focus on several things at once and do them all well. i can be in 2 conversations at once and not miss a beat.
But the other morning i was listening to NPR (Dont stone me…i know it is liberal but it talks about cool things like this). They had an interview with a guy at Stanford that did a study on multi taskers.
(here is another link to a variation of it too)
It was interesting to listen to him talk about how those of us who say we are good multi taskers probably are not…and truth be told, i think i agree with him.
When i did my “social media fast” and cut out all online activities that always seem to suck me in for more hours than i would like i found that i got more done and was significantly more productive.
Here is a quote from the study….
“They’re suckers for irrelevancy,” said communication Professor Clifford Nass, one of the researchers whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Everything distracts them.”
I am most definitley a multi tasker and better when I do it. Not to say some things can get distracting at times but if I have only one thing going on I get bored. In college I would do homework from one class while taking notes from another did it all the way through graduate school and made better grades because of it.
"Multi tasker" to a fault. If I am doing something and know there are clothes that can be washed or dishes that can be loaded I have to stop what I am doing, go start a load of whatever, then get back to my task at hand. Chewing gum, driving, and using a cell phone should count too, but I doubt it does
This is what I think!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSg_BGgDWOg
i am always doing about 100 things at once. but i am sure quality and efficiency suffers.