Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 20:56:24 GMT 1
Here's a little thread to remind myself of the negative consequences of multitasking. I've mostly had problems from it, which means wasted time basically, and also losing the habit to focus and to get things done, of a high quality level.
www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking-and-single-tasking-when-compared-to-each-other
More useful links on the subject:
careeradvancementblog.com/disadvantages-multitasking
www.viiworks.com/blog/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking/
prezi.com/uevtq_jwadcy/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking/
advancedlifeskills.com/blog/why-multitasking-is-more-than-just-inefficient/
The internet is very exciting and it enriched my brain, reasoning, life, understanding and culture, but with the internet also came multitasking, which curbed all the potential advantages of the internet.
A simple example. You want to learn a language? Internet enables you to do that and it gives you all the tools. But, whereas the most effective tool would be reading this newspaper...
www.eluxemburgensia.lu/BnlViewer/view/index.html?lang=en#issue:1119001|page:1
...page after page, as I've been doing for the last few months, I often find myself looking for German videos on YouTube, which are more exciting but imply 10% of what you can achieve by reading a newspaper which you also find on the web.
Another example: flat earth. The most effective activity for a flat earther would be to read Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Rowbotham, whereas instead I ended up not reading it and watching instead hundreds of videos, thereby hampering my learning potential.
In most cases, only listening to music while working, to avoid being distracted by other noises, could be a profitable form of multi-tasking. Almost everything else is bad. In the flat earth community I have been engaging in a huge amount of multi-tasking and I regret it. It is more useful to read Zetetic Astronomy than to watch 100 average flat earth videos. It is better to focus on one great flat earth video than to skip through 20 random flat earth videos... there is a long list of mistakes I have made in terms of multi-tasking. Not at the office, where I never do this, while all my colleagues do it, with awful results (none of their work is really reliable). Of course, since at my office promotions rely on social skills, multitaskers do better than me, because they maximize their superficial relationships. But, when it comes to reliable work, they all end up asking me. Then they screw me, but the hell with them. I work conscientiously on principle, and I would not become one of them even if they promised to reward me financially. I just can't do it.
At any rate, back on topic, I want to say that multi-tasking is a harmful addiction, and it should be fought just as seriously as other dangerous addictions, such as smoking and drinking.
www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking-and-single-tasking-when-compared-to-each-other
From an efficiency perspective, you will almost invariably get more done if you focus on one task to the exclusion of all else. In fact, the reason that most people don't get as much done in the day as they would want to is that they don't concentrate enough on single tasks.
More useful links on the subject:
careeradvancementblog.com/disadvantages-multitasking
www.viiworks.com/blog/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking/
prezi.com/uevtq_jwadcy/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-multitasking/
advancedlifeskills.com/blog/why-multitasking-is-more-than-just-inefficient/
The internet is very exciting and it enriched my brain, reasoning, life, understanding and culture, but with the internet also came multitasking, which curbed all the potential advantages of the internet.
A simple example. You want to learn a language? Internet enables you to do that and it gives you all the tools. But, whereas the most effective tool would be reading this newspaper...
www.eluxemburgensia.lu/BnlViewer/view/index.html?lang=en#issue:1119001|page:1
...page after page, as I've been doing for the last few months, I often find myself looking for German videos on YouTube, which are more exciting but imply 10% of what you can achieve by reading a newspaper which you also find on the web.
Another example: flat earth. The most effective activity for a flat earther would be to read Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Rowbotham, whereas instead I ended up not reading it and watching instead hundreds of videos, thereby hampering my learning potential.
In most cases, only listening to music while working, to avoid being distracted by other noises, could be a profitable form of multi-tasking. Almost everything else is bad. In the flat earth community I have been engaging in a huge amount of multi-tasking and I regret it. It is more useful to read Zetetic Astronomy than to watch 100 average flat earth videos. It is better to focus on one great flat earth video than to skip through 20 random flat earth videos... there is a long list of mistakes I have made in terms of multi-tasking. Not at the office, where I never do this, while all my colleagues do it, with awful results (none of their work is really reliable). Of course, since at my office promotions rely on social skills, multitaskers do better than me, because they maximize their superficial relationships. But, when it comes to reliable work, they all end up asking me. Then they screw me, but the hell with them. I work conscientiously on principle, and I would not become one of them even if they promised to reward me financially. I just can't do it.
At any rate, back on topic, I want to say that multi-tasking is a harmful addiction, and it should be fought just as seriously as other dangerous addictions, such as smoking and drinking.