Multitasking is not what everyone thinks it means. The ability for one to multitask has been sought after by employers and college professors for decades. The narrative that the brain can actually perform more than one task at a time effectively is unfounded. In Alina Tugend’s “ Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um… Focus” and Verna von Pfetten’s “Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?), both authors in fact describe the limitations of the human mind can actually prevent one from effectively multitasking thus showing that monotasking, only performing a singular task at a time, is the future of time management. Due to limitations of the human mind and its cognitive processes, multitasking should be formally called “task-switching”(Pfetten
