Pros And Cons Of Multitasking

Throughout the world, many people are multitasking at this very moment. Whether it be texting and watching TV, doing homework and talking to someone, or even texting and driving, someone on this planet is probably doing it. However, many educators and scientists are debating whether or not performing multiple tasks at once is actually the best way to complete various assignments. Multitasking is too distracting for both students and adults. It lowers work quality and efficiency, it slows reaction times, and human brains just weren’t made to multitask. Although trying to get all your homework done at once sounds like the best idea, it is actually not helping you or your grades.
MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller notes that our brains are actually not wired to multitask well, notes (1). When people are “multitasking”, they are actually just rapidly switching from one task to another. Our brains just can’t handle being overloaded. With too much activities and thoughts circulating through our brain, we tend to make a lot of mistakes. Furthermore, no amount of practice can help you “wire” your brain to work that way. David Strayer, a researcher in the outskirts of London, explains that, you are either born with neural architecture that allows you to overcome multitasking problems, or you aren’t. If you …show more content…
Although multitasking may seem like it helps you get more, better work done, it's actually doing the opposite. When multitasking, your brain is unable to organize all of the information that its receiving, and sort out all of the facts that you don’t need. Therefore, instead of actually helping us get better qualified work done, the quality of our work is actually lower than if we were to be doing it one at a time . A study at the University of London also adds how multitasking raises the production of a hormone called cortisol, or the stress hormone, which leaves us tired out, and lowers our work