If you've ever been there, you know what I'm talking about. "The Zone" or"Flow"as psychologists call it can be intoxicating. This is when your mind is fully immersed in a task and everything around you just falls away as unimportant. You'll exit the zone and find out that five to...
This is a myth! When we focus on too many tasks at once, our brains get overloaded and our work can suffer. But, when we focus on one task at a time, the quality of our work improves. We feel less stressed and more in control. So, if you find yourself multitasking, use these fi...
Is Media Multitasking a Myth?Pamela Hogle
“Multitasking is attempting to do or more things simultaneously,”explainsHowie Jones in a previous Calendar article. “Unlike segmented amounts of time for a task, such as half an hour interval, multitasking is attempting to complete two or more things at the exact same time.” On paper, ...
Multitasking is not a skill to add to the resume, but rather a bad habit to put a stop to. Turn off notifications, create set email checking time slots throughout the day (rather than constant inbox refreshing), and put your mind to the task at hand. Kory Kogon, author of The 5 ...
The key is to accept the fundamental fact that the mind can only do one thing at a time. And ditch the device when you’re trying to be in the moment; it’s often the primary co-conspirator in our multitasking offenses. Certainly, this is easier said than done, particularly since ...
In the end, it sounds like the best course to getting the most accomplished at the highest quality and still being able to end the work day with energy remaining for other parts of your life is to only have one device with a single screen turned on at a time. ...