The multiplicity of tasks is not the solution to your feelings of “fatigue”

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A demand for arrest decreased in my inbox. A new poll says that a quarter of the British send emails from the bathroom, because they are pressed for time. “Relaxation is something of the past,” the press statement, which says that a third of the respondents continue to work on their phones in the evening – “while watching their TV programs.” Yes.

With “exhaustion” an advantage in modern life, reports such as this indicate that harassment workers are forced to multiple tasks to maintain the requirements of large. But when 13 percent of the respondents confess to a weekly store online during a working meeting, I wonder what happened on Saturday – and their president. Have we got to the peak of procrastination, as meetings are now auxiliary assistant in real life – walking dog and house cleaning, what did the respondents in this poll do during work calls?

Supporters of multiple tasks want to remind us that Archimedes had a moment of Yorica while he was in the bathroom. But he left his mind wandering while soaking. He was not sitting there with his camera, trying to not spray while others were warning.

I recently asked for a quotation for some decoration. We got chat while taking a look at the different walls. Since the epidemic, he told me, that he felt satisfied with the number of times I reached a house to find men who were sitting on their sofas, and watching sports in the middle of the day while mysteriously draining their keyboards. This puts new skin on “excessive work”.

These days, if you do one thing at the same time, you think you are blond. But 20 years of evidence tells us that switching tasks makes most people stupid. The 2006 University University study found that speaking on the phone while driving is dangerous like sugar: it slows down reactions. The same team recently informed that the “information and entertainment” auto systems are more dangerous than the distraction.

Our brains are wirelessly to do one thing at one time. Even walking and speaking begins to become difficult when we get older. This does not mean that life should be a monotonous sequence. Many workers have a switch between tasks, according to the Center for Innate Studies, at King’s College London, and can be positive. In fact, “Al -Shabah” – the switch between the topics and then returned to it later – is all anger in schools as an installed technique for examining the exams.

But increasing anxiety levels means that it is important to convert the conversation into focus. The difficulty in focusing greatly is associated with some anxiety disorders recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. We tend to overestimate our ability to multiple tasks. In fact, those most vulnerable to confusion should do it at least: because studies show that they are more impulsive and have less executive control.

I am afraid to fall into this last group, but I recently found two simple breakthroughs. I tried to verify e -mail only twice a day, but this is not suitable for my personality or my working life. Instead, I returned to the handwriting list of tasks. The presence of a mental menu is released from pain – as long as the tasks are detailed enough. It appears that the use of the pen and paper is printed deeper into my subconscious. This is supported by a new research that finds that we make contacts in the brain more detailed when we write more than when we gain. These connections are crucial to forming memory – this makes it necessary to keep children in handwriting.

I am also trying to try Cal Nioport in his book Slow productivityHe calls the “clouds system”. Basically, you focus without mercy on the best three projects and evade as possible from early communication and meetings on meetings and messages on meetings related to subsequent projects. Only when you finish one of the best three, you can pull the next story to that hole.

We all have different versions of this system – and I assume it can be called only “focus”. But in following my own version, he made me reflect the number of times that a distinction is lost between work that actually generates revenues, and he pushes matters forward and has meaning; The work is the process. I mean, the pre -curfew, the compliance training unit, the e -mail chain “Responding to the ALL”, which stands out constantly, etc. The first type of work is much more satisfactory. The second may be the type that informs the offices of the offices who do their job in The Dog Walk and the toilet – and what the new decorative friend says he says is happy with his physical function.

I think these practical tasks are more fun if performed for the background of music, texts, scrolling or verifying the football degree. The problem is that people who turn between multiple channels – are called researchers in heavy media by Stanford researchers – offer worse memory and less executive monitoring, even when focusing on one job.

It turns out that there are some “supernatural bets”, those who can deal with multiple tasks without losing efficiency. On brain tests, this group shows less activity in the brain, and no more, when adding additional tasks. Unfortunately, only about 2 percent of us in this category. So it will be nice to ourselves, our owners of our work, admit that attention periods are not unlimited, and to treat them carefully.

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