Multitasking Speech

Multitasking, “Dealing with more than one task at the same time”. You’re back in class, listening to the song that you’ve been humming since you first heard it in the shower this morning. You’re trying to finish your class work so it’s not homework. The chorus hits, you listen to understand the lyrics. You can’t remember the Math problem you just read 3 times over again. Before you know it the class is finished and you still have homework. Sound familiar? As a teen myself, i’ve been there too. Every time we’ve been in this situation our brains have been switching rapidly between tasks, not multitasking. The reason why we didn’t finish our homework. Multitasking, a real word, but not a real action. Scientists say the switching rapidly habit is in many forms. TV, cellphones, computers, etc. There’s so many different ways we get distracted and it actually wears us down without realization occurring. Having your phone sitting next to you while you're studying, when the snapchat vibration rumbles the table. Yeah, the vibration, you know what i’m talking about. You stop immediately to check it, until 20 minutes later you realize you have to get off of instagram. All of the work you were studying immediately exited your brain and was overtaken by the involuntary habit of keeping your mind occupied, with the cell phone. They’re …show more content…
We all know now it’s because of the music, or because of the TV playing in the background that we have to reread that one Math problem four times. Our brains have programmed themselves to “multi task” in EVERYTHING and we think the music, color, whatever that distracts our brain helps us, but ultimately is hurting us. We have “multitasked” for so long that we are frustrated when given the opportunity to focus on one thing. If you can’t have music to do your homework, can you even do it? Although it’s all we know, we know the effects and we need to try and