According to Sarah D. Sparks, there are more than six types of media that 13-to 18-year-olds use simultaneously outside of school. The result of the tendency “to pay continuous partial attention” to everything is having difficulty concentrating deeply on anything. According to researchers cited in the article, the brain can’t “be two places at once”. It takes longer to “ multitask ” than it would take to do individual tasks one after the other. Having to make a choice affect multitask: bottleneck in the prefrontal cortex—the decisionmaking part of the brain—that delays the second task. Multitaskers …show more content…
I never return my tasks late. Even though I never miss my assignments, but I have a really bad habit of finishing assignments. I always finish my assignments last minute. For example: I knew my math online test and homework due date last night and I have a whole week spring break to finish it. But I did not do it. I wait until yesterday evening then started it. I just finished two hours early before due date. On my spring break, I did not learn nothing. I watched a TV show and a Netflix, talked on the phone with my parents and friends, and played social media. I think I am living in quadrant 2 and 4. After I have learned and read time management on Mindtools website, I am trying to change my habit to quadrant 2 (Q2). I choose “To do list” to move myself to Q2.
In conclusion, time management is really useful in a lifetime, because we know what we have spent time for, and what our spending time is it useful or waste time. It is really important to learn and know about time management, so that we know what we have done every single day and what we have to do to catch our goal