[FACT OR FAKE #23] Multitasking Makes You Less Productive!
Many of us believe that multitasking helps you get more done faster. But is that really true? We saw current news reports talk about it and many people ask about the effects of multitasking. So we decided to dig deep and unearth the truth about multitasking. Here it is..
By Judith Yeoh — 13 Oct 2013, 08:29 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Before we answer that, let's first figure out why we multitask in the first place?
To understand why we always fall into the habit of multitasking, when we know we shouldn't, the answer is in fact quite simple:
"[People who multitask] are not being more productive—they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work."
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This is what researcher Zhen Wang mentions in a recent study on multitasking. She mentioned that if we study with our books open, watch TV at the same time and text friends every so often, we get a great feeling of fulfillment. We are getting all these things done at once, and we feel incredibly efficient.
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Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. Therefore, NO, our brain cannot multitask!
Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask.
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You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while you read a book. Pianists can play a piece with left hand and right hand simultaneously. Surely this is multitasking.
forbes.comBut here we're talking about the brain’s ability to pay attention. It is the resource you forcibly deploy while trying to listen to a boring lecture at school. It is the activity that collapses as your brain wanders during a tedious presentation at work. This attentional ability is not capable of multitasking.
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What multitasking does to your brain?
Having 20 tabs open on your laptop while Snapchatting with your best friend eating a sandwich and listening to Taylor Swift is overwhelming. And makes you mean!
When we multitask all day, those scattered habits literally change the pathways in our brains. The consequence, according to Nass's research, is that sustaining your attention becomes impossible.
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Multitasking stunts emotional intelligence: Instead of addressing the person in front of you, you address a text message. Multitasking makes us worse managers: The more we multitask, the worse we are at sorting through information--recall the broadcast news kerfuffle above.
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