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Are You Multi-tasking?

PBitzer

Published on August 4, 2017

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You may be trying to do more than one thing at a time, but it is really impossible for our brains to multi-task. Research has shown that the amount of errors made goes up by 50% and it takes you twice as long to get things done!

The trouble with multi-tasking is that we’re splitting up our brain resources and giving less attention to each task. We’re probably preforming badly on all of them. When trying to do more than one thing, the brain dedicates one half of our gray matter to each task.

What our brain does when asked to multi-task is called context- switching. Our brains can not handle two tasks simultaneously, so it switches back and forth using important brain power just for the switching.

Do yourself a big favor and just do one thing at a time, You’ll ge better results and most likely save yourself time in not having to redo anything!

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