Danger Of Multitasking

How many times have we been told that multitasking is not an efficient way to accomplish tasks? For many of us the answer is multiple, yet somehow we still find ourselves doing homework with the TV on or cooking dinner while talking on the phone. For some reason multitasking just seems unavoidable when faced with the countless tasks we need to get done. We tend to forget that trying to juggle all of our tasks at once can actually cause us to lose 40 percent of our productivity (What are the Cognitive…). But how can something that seems like a great way to get everything done at once cause us to accomplish nothing? Our brains cannot process and encode two different pieces of information, making it impossible to efficiently multitask. When asked to evaluate ourselves on how well we

The danger with multitasking is that from the outside it looks like a productive way to accomplish tasks. When we see someone watching their favorite TV show while doing homework, or sending emails while in a work meeting we envy them for being able to get so much done at one time. Assistant professor of communications at Ohio state university, Zhen Wang, says “[people who multitask] are not being more productive they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work” (What multitasking does to our brains). When we are doing multiple tasks at once we feel like we are accomplishing a lot, but when we look back we realize that nothing really was achieved. With all the technology now-a-days multitasking is becoming easier and easier. Most new computers have a split screen feature where you can jump back and forth between pages, making switching from task to task as easy as clicking a button. With everything becoming so fast paced, society as a whole has grown impatient. Juggling multiple tasks keeps us from sitting around and waiting for one thing to