Multitasking on the Way Out?
Andrew Nusca blogs about a new study that proclaims focusing one's attention is far superior to multitasking, at their ZDNet blog, "The Toy Box": "A person who works with complete focus has a major advantage over a workaholic who multi-tasks all day and responds to every interruption, according to a story by tech writer Mike Elgan on InternetNews.com." Nusca refers to Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers: “Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.”
Teachers, artists, and artisans have known this all along. Let's face it, when you try to do two or more things at once, unless you're in an emergency situation, it's because you don't value any of those things very highly.
Andrew Nusca blogs about a new study that proclaims focusing one's attention is far superior to multitasking, at their ZDNet blog, "The Toy Box": "A person who works with complete focus has a major advantage over a workaholic who multi-tasks all day and responds to every interruption, according to a story by tech writer Mike Elgan on InternetNews.com." Nusca refers to Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers: “Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.”
Teachers, artists, and artisans have known this all along. Let's face it, when you try to do two or more things at once, unless you're in an emergency situation, it's because you don't value any of those things very highly.
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