Multitasking
Multitasking lowers your work quality and efficiency.
Our brains weren't built to multitask
“Our brains are not wired to multitask well… when people think they're multitasking, they're actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there's a cognitive cost.“[1].
Our brains are designed to focus on one thing at a time. Bombarding them with information only slows them down.
Our brains weren't built to multitask.
Multitasking lowers your work quality and efficiency.
New research suggests the possibility that cognitive damage associated with multi-tasking could be permanent.
References
1. Levitin, D. J. (2015). The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Illustrated edition). Dutton.