Are people who think they can multitask deluding themselves?

You may be reading this content at a conference call. But is multitasking really a really good idea or is it better to do something slower than we focus on only one task at a time?

Psychologists cite powerful research that performance is improved by paying attention to tasks. They believe that humans are good at completing consecutive tasks rather than synchronizing tasks. My teenager insisted that the change was okay when sending a text message or watching YouTube, but that was wrong. In 2009, Stanford's research team led by Clifford Nass compared the multitasking process of heavy media and light media in a series of tests. Nass believes that heavier multitasking people will better get better by storing and storing information and have better memory, but the opposite is true. Multitasking can not do this when these groups display the composition of colored shapes and remember their positions and ask others to ignore others. They often distract and switch tasks. It is a bad thing to remember that filtering irrelevant information and that the content they see is lighter than multitasking.

The team led by David Strayer at the University of Utah has surveyed people driving while using their mobile phones and discovered that they are more than twice as likely to miss a stop sign. In later studies, Strayer discovered that those who are most likely to perform multiple tasks are those who thought they were good at it. In his study, 70% of 310 students thought that the average score on multitasking would exceed the average. People with too many tasks have high impulsive behavior, which is usually not the best way to try more than one job at a time.

In handheld devices, the time required for braking in an emergency situation is delayed during driving, and the information the driver knows is halved, even in hands-free devices. Stryer, however, discovered that people are always overestimating their performance when driving on the phone.

According to a survey of Nas, he suggested that it takes 20 minutes to fly between two tasks before completing the task and then switch to another task. Testing the ability to measure memory shapes is not really convincing like multitasking, but if you think that you can do more than one job at the same time, I guess. According to limited research women may be better, but most of us are not natural people. According to Strayer's survey, it was found that about 3% of the population is "super user", the more it is better. But the rest of us need to stick to one thing at a time.

There are also people who are really multitasking (sometimes becoming the concept of Google's "super user"), some studies show that this may be 10% of the population. I think that we are doing something when actually performing (and simply) multitask switching tasks. Fast, but not responsible. If you switch tasks, productivity may decline sharply. Imagine in the process of solving important issues that you decided to pick up the phone right before "Eureka". I end the call and I will return to Eureka's moment, but it no longer exists. The solution is the same as the first.

Please do not multitask. Contrary to what many people think, multitasking is not productive. In fact, research has demonstrated that there is no multitasking to handle such things. If you think that you are, please switch your brain from one task to another quickly. This is very labor-intensive and does not increase focus or productivity. I will keep time for work and fun, but please do not wear the habit of superimposing them. I do the work when you do the work. Please play when you are playing. This is really effective and you will be more efficient. Your relationship will also prosper because your work can not take time for people important in your life.