Multitasking is not the answer to your feelings of ‘overwhelm’
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The arrest requirement has decreased my inbox. A quarter of the British says that a new research sends letters as they are so depressed for time. “Relaxation is a thing of the past,” the press release said that one-third of respondents continued to work on their phones in the evening. ” Ha
The “overheating” of modern life, such as reports, believes that harassment are harassed, and have to collect a copy at the top of the balloon requirements. But when 13% of respondents admit that during the working meeting, I was doing an online store every week, I wonder what happened on Saturday and their boss. Have we reached the delay in the peak, during which meetings are now realizing? Walking the dog and cleaning the house.
Proponents of Multitasking, as remind us that the teachers had his eureka moment in the bathroom. But he allows his mind to wander while he is soaked. He didn’t sit on the camera there, trying not to try, and the others were at war.
I recently asked an artist for some decorating quotation. We talked while he looked at different walls. He said to me since the pandemic. This puts a new tone on “overless”.
These days, if you do something at once, you think it’s more important. But 20 years of proof tells us that the task-off most people fools. Since 2006, Utah University University has found that talking on the phone while driving is just as dangerous as being drunk. It slows reactions. The same team recently reported that in Infotain’s systems are more dangerous than phones in terms of deviation.
Our brain is mostly tense to do one thing at a time. Even walking and talking begin to be complicated when we grow old. This does not mean that life should be a monotonous sequence. Many employees are enjoyed between tasks, according to the focus, at King’s King College, and it can be positive. Indeed, “Interling” – passing between topics, then returning to them later, all the angrily in schools as a proven technique of review review.
But the growing level of concern means that it is important to focus on the conversation. The difficulty concentration is highly related to some disorders recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. And we tend to overestimate our Multitask’s ability. In fact, they need to do it the most, because studies show that they are more promoting and have less executive control.
I’m afraid I fall into that last group, but I’ve recently found two simple hackers. I tried to check e-mail only on the day but it doesn’t match my personality or my work life. Instead, I return to the list of things to do. List of list releases my brain from suffering as long as tasks are enough detail. And the use of the pen and paper seems to be deeper in my subconscious. This supports new research that we find that we are more complicated by the brain connections when we write than when we print. These connections are very important for memory design, and it makes children imperative to go with manuscript.
I also try what is renews new in his book Slow productivityCalls a “Tash System”. In fact, you are relentlessly focusing on your top three projects and to avoid early communication, meetings and meetings on meetings and meetings, which refer to further projects. Only when you have finished your top three, you pull the next one in that hole.
We will all have different versions of this system, and I think it can be called “concentration”. But followed by my own version forced me to reflect how often the difference was lost between the work, which actually causes income, and it makes sense. and the job that is a process. By which I mean the preliminary investment, the compliance module, constantly swollen “Answer everyone” email chain, etc. The first type of work is much more satisfactory. The second is the type of office workers report that they are doing a dog walk and toilet, and what my new decorator friend says is happy to be in his physical case that he is happy less.
The task of such a process is that people who have changed between many channels, which are called by Stanford researchers to show a worse memory and lower executive, even when focusing on one job.
It turns out that there are a few “superbons”, those who are able to handle multiple tasks without loss of efficiency. This group shows a less brain activity on the brain scan, not more when additional tasks are added. Unfortunately, only about 2% of us are in that category. Thus, it would be kinder to ourselves, and our employers to accept that the space of attention is not infinite and treated them carefully.
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