You've probably heeded that men are seemingly ineffective in multitasking, while women find it effortless to accomplish things in this way. The truth is that no one can multitask cleverly and the more frequently you try, the more preoccupied, distractible and disorganized you'll become.
You may perceive this as something that is impossible to believe-after all, we're regularly motivated to think of multitasking as a good thing, specifically at work. As a matter of fact, a lot of people feel responsible about turning off their electronic gadgets and concentrating on only one activity at a given time. This is, however, the undisclosed idea of competence and skillfulness. Thus, multitasking is an erroneous economy.
According to The Telegraph, when you assume you're doing two or more things simultaneously, what's really happening is that you're diverting back and forth from one activity to another. This is because the human brain is unsuitable of performing two cognitive tasks at the same time. You do this so quickly that you're normally unconscious of it, but the attempt of shifting your concentration between various tasks-even simple ones-outlays mental effort and time.
Professor David Meyer at the University of Michigan have discovered that when a person attempts to execute two or more connected tasks at the same time, it took them far lengthy even-constantly up to twice as long--to accomplish both than it did when they processed through the tasks progressively. Meyer assumes that when people are multitasking, they also boost the chances of making mistakes.
Because it's more nerve-racking to attempt to shuffle various tasks at once than it is to concentrate on each one in turn, multitasking is followed by the dispensation of adrenaline and stress hormones, making us feel 'wired'. In time, such performance may even generate lapses in short term memory.
And of course, it's always absurd to work consecutively. We often need to be attentive of at least one other responsibility or task while we're concentrating on another. But you'll gain competence, feel calmer and work with greater precision if whenever possible; you focus on and accomplish one task before turning your concentration to the next one.
