Monday Motivation: 4 Truths About Multitasking

Being able to multitask is seen as the Holy Grail of the modern executive. This post reveals 4 of the unknown darker aspects of multitasking. 1. Multitasking makes you less productive. If you’re convinced that multitasking makes you productive, you’re very wrong. It just means you backtrack a lot, because every time you switch tasks, you have to go back a bit to find out where you last left off. 2. Multitasking will damage your brain. You’re asking your brain to split its attention and it can’t do that. Our brains are not capable of focusing on multiple tasks at once.  We think they are, but what’s happening is your brain is jumping back and forth between the tasks, focusing briefly one at a time. 3. Multitasking reduces the ability to make connections. Multitasking reduces your ability to remember things, and that’s dangerous for you. Multitasking while reading and writing doesn’t work. It leaves you without the ability to recycle previous information. 4. It dampens your creativity Multitasking requires a lot of what’s known as “working memory,” or temporary brain storage, in layman’s terms. And when working memory’s all used up, it can take away from our ability to think creatively and get original work done.   About the author: Roman Ajiboye is a freelance writer who loves books, social media and the web. His articles have appeared on thescoopng.com and BlossomNnodim.com. He writes opinion pieces via medium.com/@HammedAjiboye, personal essays on his blog, strictlyroman.wordpress.com and tweets via @HammedAjiboye

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This article was first published on 1st December 2014

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