Do you talk, e-mail, instant message, and listen to iPod, all at
once? If so, may we have your attention for a few minutes,
please? Our brains have an operating system that is different
from the one on computer. A typical operating system can switch
and bounce between different tasks in a matter of nanoseconds.
However, only a single thought can pulse through our brains at
any moment. As such, multitasking, performing two unconnected,
unrelated tasks at the same time, creates stress, lowers
productivity, messes up thinking, leads to howlers, and contrary
to popular belief, consumes more time than you would have spent
on a task. “Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing
the chances of mistakes,” The New York Times quotes David E.
Meyer, a cognitive scientist and director of the Brain,
Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan,
as saying. “Disruptions and interruptions are a bad deal from
the standpoint of our ability to process information.” Following
are the reasons multitasking