The Pros And Cons Of Multitasking

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Today, multitasking is everywhere, and is very huge in many situations. We are guilty of, multitasking and how it has become a negative and positive impact on our lives. Nowadays, people prefer to divide people in two groups; people who masters can multitask, and those who cannot. Almost everyone place themselves in the former group, thereafter they put the rest of the people in the latter. I personally find myself multitassking many things at once, and never pay attention to it. I believe that doing more than one thing is okay. In order to get things done faster multitasking seems like the answer to the question. In Tugend’s essay, she uses certain techniques that caught the reader’s attention, stating this as “you are reading this article, are you listening to music or the radio, Yelling at your children? Checking emails”? Of course, the reader was expected to read the essay. By persuading them to believe that, what she was saying was true.
Multi-tasking has been proven to slow efficiency. However, something should be mentioned here is that no one can really multitask. The human brain does not multi-task like an expert juggler; it switches frantically between tasks like a bad amateur plate spinner. What you actually do when you are doing the concentration demanding-tasks is to focus on the first one and then the other, a so-called "switch-tasking". We all know
Strogen 2 concentration requires s much whether you are driving a car while texting which is extremely dangerous. Multitasking requirement of doing just two or three things at once puts far more demand on our brains compared with if we did them one after
Another. In addition, studies have shown that we have a much lower retention rate of what we learn when multitaski...

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... not multitask, sometimes it feel like we’re being more efficient when we are focus on one thing at a time. The main condition of a mature mind, it to state an undone perturbation. William James the great psychologist, wrote a length about the varieties of human attention, “passive attention,” and the like, and noted the “gray chaotic indiscrimination”. (Rosen pg.4).
In conclusion, to achieve the connection of people, and sticking to stop multitask can eliminate many problems. Often, people try to change their habits, and they cannot get through a day, People who succeed give it a few days of discomfort, like a drug withdrawal, and then they can get through it. Overall, All of these distractions are mindless, so you might want to give yourself a little mantra or phrase that gets them to refocus or resist distractions and keep the entire brain strong at all times.

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