Multitasking Can Make You Lose...Um..Focus

According to the article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um… Focus” by Alina Tugend, multitasking which is focusing on different tasks at the same time is a poor approach to effectiveness and productivity. In fact, we lose time moving back and forth from one task to another.  She explains how studies have proved that it also depends on how we do it.  For example, listening to music while working may help us to get our job fast, however, talking on the phone and typing an E-mail simultaneously sounds more difficult to get done and this is because we’re using the same cognitive functions, in other words the same part of the brain. We cannot focus like that. She says how everything is understandable due to the technology. In the past there was not smartphones, or computers, but now we’re required to get more things done in less amount of time and this is what researchers like her are trying to figure out; how our brain are being affected due to the overload. But for the meanwhile she advises us to try to recreate boundaries. In the article, Dr. Hallowed says that despite our belief that we cannot control how much we’re overloaded, we can. We should be able sleep enough, exercise, eat healthy, turn off devices in its necessary and also learn the art of single-tasking.

work cited

Tugend, Alina. “Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus. New York Times”. Oct. 24,2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/business/yourmoney/25shortcuts.html?mcubz=0. Web. Sept. 8, 2017