Multitasking

This week, we discussed school and how it felt to us over the years, and explained the real meaning of multitasking and time. To me, the most important, or rather the one that stood out the most, was the lecture on school and what our ideal school would be. To most, school then and now are completely two different sides of the spectrum. When I was younger, school didn't feel like a job I would go to eight hours a day with people I hardly knew. It was fun and it was something I didn't dread going…

potential. In Christine Rosen’s article, “The Myth of Multitasking,” she describes multitasking as the “Human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible.” While multitasking may maximize time one might crucially need, it often gives less efficient results in the long run. Workers may use multitasking as a skill they have on a résumé, however, it doesn’t show whether they can do so in a positive manner. Multitasking can fuel the difficulties one may have…

and my own boss is the best job for me because, I'm good at multitasking, I have patience and will put time in, and will pave my own future. First I’m good at multitasking which is a necessity when owning your own business. At the beginning of my business I might be my own staff I will have to multitask and be my own bookkeeper and customer service agent (“Study.com”). I love to challenge myself to do as much as possible so the multitasking won’t bother me. Another reason why this job is good…

cellphones; technology has evolved and conquered the world. It has changed life and making it easier to live. There is however, a downfall to technology that isn 't often seen, according to the Articles “Google is Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um... Focus”, by Alina Tugend, and “Just One More Game...: Angry Birds, Farmville, and other Hyper-addictive Stupid Games”, by Sam Anderson. These authors state the dangers of technology to our civilization. By…

Assignment #1 Reflecting upon my lifelong multitasking habits, I’ve begun to realize that I’ve always engaged in multitasking habits which often lead to frustration, wasted time, and definitely feelings of being overwhelmed. In my attempts to squeeze in everything I need to do, my tasks and energy have suffered. For instance, on the days in which my son is not at school for a few hours, I feel a lot of stress to accomplish anything and everything that is more difficult to do while having my…

Annotated Bibliography for “Multitasking and the Effect on the Brain” Prior to reading up on multitasking I had some prior knowledge about the topic and how it relates to the human brain. One issue that is often discussed when referring to multitasking is the degradation in quality of work as number of tasks increase. This issue is brought up nearly every time multitasking is ever mentioned. The focus of my project is the idea that one might be able to circumvent some of the problems normally…

a mother is to do everything their child ask for and needs. Mom should get their child in with everything they could need so that they can focus on the road. A lot of society thinks that they are above the law and the rules don’t apply to them. Multitasking while driving can be considered just as dangerous as driving intoxicated (Kiesbye). As we can see Teens are not the only drivers that cause problems on the roadways. We need to stop thinking it is only teens because all ages are guilty of…

Multitasking, What Good Can It Do? Every day everyone carries their cellular phones around with them all the time. Some of them are on them so much you may say they are attached to our hands or maybe even a part of them. Now with how phones have become waterproof we can literally bring them everywhere, even in the shower. They have become like mini computers putting the internet at your fingertips no matter where you go. People are so attached to their devices that restaurants are starting to…

In her essay, Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus, Alina Tugend discusses many effects of multitasking. We think that multitasking is a way to keep us more efficient, but in reality it may be doing just the opposite. Tugend says that,”psychologists, neuroscientists, and others are finding that it [multitasking] can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient. It turns out that most of the time when we think we’re multitasking, we actually aren’t. Our brains are…

In the article, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus,” Alina Tugend claims that instead of multi-tasking we can learn to stick with single-tasking. The author stated in the article “that the next time the phone rings sit on the couch and don’t focus on anything else but the conversation (Tugend). She says this because she makes it well known in the article that multi-tasking is bad for others. She explained her opinion on multi-tasking by showing studies that have been done. One…