Multitasking is Destructive For You
Be aware of what you are doing to yourself. How to handle Multitasking?
Multitasking is to deal with more than one task at the same time. Are human beings multitasking creatures?
We all try to handle more than one thing at a time in a hurry.
While there are so many distractions around us, we want to experience and even get it all done.
You can cook while you take a phone call and watching a video on Youtube simultaneously.
Checking your e-mails while playing with your kids.
Listening to a podcast while driving a car.
Writing a Medium article while speaking with your partner.
Try to be a multitasking person is time wasted action and causing more errors due to insufficient attention.
Both tasks are not under your control entirely, and you switch back and forth one thing to another.
Lack of focus on a task blocks your productivity and creativity.
It is hard to specialize in a field.
Health problems arise.
Multitasking lowers your IQ levels up to 15 points.
Being a multitasker is harmful to both your short term and long term memory. It is getting harder to recall old memories.
Multitasking led to an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and reductions in positive mood states of calmness, contentment, and happiness.
Psychological disadvantages are destructive.
The rapid shift attention between the tasks consumes more energy and increase your anxiety level.
Unfinished tasks accumulate on your shoulders like a mountain and produce chronic stress.
In the long run, a sense of inadequacy may begin.
“Researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK compared the amount of time people spend on multiple devices (such as texting while watching TV) to MRI scans of their brains. They found that high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region responsible for empathy as well as cognitive and emotional control.” by Travis Bradberry, Ph.D.
So don’t rush to handle many tasks at the same time. It brings you more damage than profits in the long run.
How to handle Multitasking?
- First, admit that Multitasking is bad for you.
- Turn of your notifications, you do not need to check your social media accounts every minute.
- Make a to-do list and organize it every day.
- Finish the most important thing first
- Start a new duty after completing a task.
- Find the most productive time of the day, and try to handle your hardest job at that time.
- End of the day, you feel relief to finish a task and delete it from your list. Otherwise, you all have abortive missions.
Whatever you do, give your full attention to it and try to enjoy it. You can stay in the moment and be aware of what you are doing and why you are doing.
Otherwise, you will not be different from a machine with a high performance operating system. Moreover, you can not finish your tasks as fast as computers already are.
Remind to yourself; you are not a computer; you are a human.
I hope you all find your speed on a single task.
