We need to recreate boundaries Multitasking can make you lose.... um... focus, is actually a very true statement. After carefully reading and selecting the article that was most interesting to me, I realized that I was reading the article, scanning through my phone, and watching TV. Today, everyone wants things to be microwaved and rather not wait, which is mainly called being impatient. In the article, Multitasking can make you lose, um, focus, the author Ms. Alina Tugend informs her readers about the many disadvantages multitasking can have on a persons health, quality in work, and ability to stay focus. According to Tugend people can actually train themselves to not be stressed and to focus on one task at a time. Tons of research has
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Driving while texting is the number one cause of fetal car accidents today. In the article, an observation was done on 17 drivers, they were asked to use a driving simulator Although, getting the job done as quickly as possible seems to be the most popular method, studies have shown that multitasking can lead to less quality in work. The article suggests that most people don 't realize that by multitasking, they 're only making themselves less focus. Being less focus leads to lots of frustration as the outcome. It also depends on what you 're doing, say for instance if you 're driving and putting on makeup, that would certainly be a dangerous thing, but driving and listening to music is sort of a combination of multitasking that would be referred to as stimulation for the …show more content…
Mr. Miller, the professor that conducted the observation, found out that a person can be doing a million tasks at once, however, the brain is only focused on one or two of the tasks. With that being said, the tasks will get done, but the amount of focus and outcome quality of the work may not be as well as the quality of a project that a person that single tasks would have done. When people accept jobs that includes deadlines, the person creating the deadlines usually gives the workers a realistic time period, however in today 's society, everyone wants things to be done expeditiously and at this point quality isn 't questioned at
Driving while texting is the number one cause of fetal car accidents today. In the article, an observation was done on 17 drivers, they were asked to use a driving simulator Although, getting the job done as quickly as possible seems to be the most popular method, studies have shown that multitasking can lead to less quality in work. The article suggests that most people don 't realize that by multitasking, they 're only making themselves less focus. Being less focus leads to lots of frustration as the outcome. It also depends on what you 're doing, say for instance if you 're driving and putting on makeup, that would certainly be a dangerous thing, but driving and listening to music is sort of a combination of multitasking that would be referred to as stimulation for the …show more content…
Mr. Miller, the professor that conducted the observation, found out that a person can be doing a million tasks at once, however, the brain is only focused on one or two of the tasks. With that being said, the tasks will get done, but the amount of focus and outcome quality of the work may not be as well as the quality of a project that a person that single tasks would have done. When people accept jobs that includes deadlines, the person creating the deadlines usually gives the workers a realistic time period, however in today 's society, everyone wants things to be done expeditiously and at this point quality isn 't questioned at