Debunking The Myth of Multitasking

According to Dave Crenshaw, the most common kind of multitasking doesn’t book productivity but it actually slows you down. This is true. In the article Crenshaw states that his mission is to create environments that let employees grasp full attention on one task before moving onto the other. Basically I don’t think he really believes in multitasking and neither do I. Junior year in high school I used to talk about how I can multi-task this and that until my chemistry teacher enlightened me with an interesting fact. She told the class that multitasking is physically impossible; a brain cannot focus on two things at once but switches back and forth really fast between two tasks. I did not want to believe it but one time when I was walking down the hallway texting and my friend came beside next to me I tried to hold a conversation with her while texting and the text I was sending were the words I was saying to her. Clearly, I cannot multi task. Crenshaw also comes up with a few tips to reduce “switchtasking” in his words and they are: take control over technology, schedule what you can schedule, and focus on the person. The tip that I feel like would help me the most is to schedule what I can because when I start planning ahead and forget what I’ve already planned I panic at last minute when too much is on my plate that I can’t handle. His way of scheduling is to set regular times within the days of the week and let others know that you’ll be scheduling accordingly so they know when to expect a reply. I guess that type of advice would come in handy for like a professional because at this day and age I am not a very busy person, the most I do is plan to go out with my friends and do homework. Like right now, it is so late to be typing this damn blog because I FORGOT ABOUT IT until I was singing in the shower and I remembered that we talked about singing in INQ class so then it reminded me I have something to do tonight. Thank God for that shower.