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- Constant multitasking causes you to pump adrenaline throughout the day.
- Adrenaline build-up produces stress in your body
- Stress is tied in to 80% of current medical expenditures.
(Source: keyorganization.com)
“Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%.”
Peter Bregman, Harvard Business Review (May 2010)
http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski.html
“While it is, of course, possible to attend to two or more things simultaneously, we do neither task at the level of quality that is possible if it we were to do it on its own.”
Written about driving and phone use on Ego, the Blog by Michael Taft (December 2011)
http://www.egothebook.com/blog/2011/12/31/cell-phones-driving-and-multitasking/
“So not only were the high multitaskers bad at multitasking, they were also convinced that they were good at it. And their ability to perform basic cognitive functions, such as paying attention, keeping memory organized, and analytical reasoning, was bad.”
Multitasking Fail written by Michael Taft (May 2011)
Myth of Multitasking Exercise
The link above provides an exercise examining the efficiency of multitasking and how difficult it is to switch from one task to another.
Click on the title above for the Myth of Multitasking’s “Multitasking is Worse Than a Lie” exercise
