Are you being productive when you do a lot of things at once?
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The myth of multitasking or doing many things at once is always going to be there, with many believers and even you may believe that you do it, but do you do it? Let’s see.
The truth is that when we try to do many things at once, we are simply switching very quickly from one task to another. The desire we have to be more and more productive, partly forced by today’s society, makes us want to do everything possible at the same time. I regret to inform you that this is something impossible. Impossible at all? Well, while you walk you are also breathing. Could that be called multitasking? You are doing two things at the same time, it is true, but they are things that our unconscious mind does for us, so it is not multitasking.
The point is this, you can do two things at the same time when at least one of them is unconsciously done. And I assure you, there are not many of those. I have found myself many times at that moment wanting to listen to a podcast and do homework, and in the end, you do not find out about one or the other. It all comes down to the word FOCUS. Our brain can only focus on one thing at a time, so don’t try to multitask if you don’t unconsciously do one. For example, just before writing this, I was turning on the computer and cleaning my glasses at the same time. Have I done two things at the same time? Yes. One of them was unconscious? Not really.
The message that you have to take from here: Do not multitask, it is almost impossible. Instead, focus on doing only one profitable thing at a time, and not just anything, but something that you like and enjoy doing, or you will get frustrated. From my experience, such a thing as multitasking does not work. It is a myth.
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