The Autumn of the Multitaskers
From The Atlantic.com
The Autumn of the Multitaskers:
It isn’t working, it never has worked, and though we’re still pushing and driving to make it work and puzzled as to why we haven’t stopped yet, which makes us think we may go on forever, the stoppage or slowdown is coming nonetheless, and when it does, we’ll be startled for a moment, and then we’ll acknowledge that, way down deep inside ourselves (a place that we almost forgot even existed), we always knew it couldn’t work.
The scientists know this too, and they think they know why. Through a variety of experiments, many using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity, they’ve torn the mask off multitasking and revealed its true face, which is blank and pale and drawn.
I could never get more than two things accomplished at once at work and this article just brings it home. I don’t know what a person is even looking for when someone publishes an employment ad and one of the requirements is “ability to multitask.”
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I try to multitask as best as I can, something always suffers though.