{"id":441,"date":"2009-10-07T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-10-07T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:24:40","slug":"441","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=5>Multitasking Damages Your Focus<\/font><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lemsworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Images\/multitasking.gif\" align=left width=150 height=190 hspace=10>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/08\/multitasking\/\">Wired Magazine<\/a> article discusses tests performed by Stanford scientists that suggest frequent multitaskers experience decreased cognitive ability even when not actively multitasking\u00e2\u20ac\u201chaving trouble ignoring irrelevant information, organizing their working memory, and switching between multiple tasks.  This suggests that multitasking is actually increasingly bad for you, although the article notes that this study proves only correlation and not causation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong><font size=3>Your Serial Processor (Your Brain) Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Actually Multitask<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\nDave Crenshaw, a time-management expert, calls multitasking, switch-tasking in his book The Myth of Multitasking.  Your brain tricks you into thinking you are multitasking by switching very quickly between tasks.  He argues that this switching makes it difficult for your brain to focus effectively on any individual task.  Although it seems impressive that you are juggling so much, no single task will be done well.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve argued this point for years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multitasking Damages Your Focus A Wired Magazine article discusses tests performed by Stanford scientists that suggest frequent multitaskers experience decreased cognitive ability even when not actively multitasking\u00e2\u20ac\u201chaving trouble ignoring irrelevant information, organizing their working memory, and switching between multiple tasks. This suggests that multitasking is actually increasingly bad for you, although the article notes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}