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Stanford on multitasking
At my bit literacy talks I often encourage people to do one thing at a time.
But what about multitaskers, the people who love to brag about how they're wired differently from mere mortals and can accomplish several things at once? Stanford professor Clifford Nass reached this conclusion after researching the topic:
"They're suckers for irrelevancy," said communication Professor Clifford Nass, one of the researchers whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Everything distracts them."
Do one thing at a time.
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uberVU - social comments — Nov 11, '09 – 7:36 PM
This post was mentioned on Twitter by markhurst: Do one thing at a time... here's why http://bit.ly/1zsEHY...
It's interesting to hear that those who multitask appear to constantly be looking for changes in their environment (from the video). Multitasking = ADD?
We only have 100% of attention to give, how does anyone expect to do anything AT 100% when their attention is split between several things? It's impossible when you only have that one-hundred percent to give to everything.