Wednesday, February 11, 2009

06 sarina multitasking

MULTITASKING

Do you think multitasking is easier? Do you think it saves time? Well Dr. Edward M hallowell, a psychologist doesn’t.
The reason that he doesn’t is because when you think that you are multitasking you are really not your actually losing time because it takes longer to switch between each subject. Dr. Hallowell also said that you should only multitask if it is a routine and once it demands more attention your brain gets a severe bottle neck.
Dr. Hallowell said multitasking is an illusion. When you do more than one thing at a time your not multitasking your justswitching from one thing to another so fast that you think you are multitasking.
You may say that it saves you time but, it is taking longer because you loose your focus so easily and when you go back to a different subject you forget what you are doing. For an example when you are e-mailing and texting at the same time one of th people that you are talking to feels like you are not there because you have already lost your focus while talking to someone else.
Dr. Edward M. Hallowell has done reasearch on this and ha reasons to belive that it is true.

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