How Multi - tasking Kills!

                                              How Multi-tasking 
                                         Kills Your Productivity
                                                       Post #4:

  **#1 - Our Brains Aren't Designed to Multitask!
>>> You may feel productive when you're multitasking, but
you're actually putting a great deal of strain on your brain!
The human brain isn't designed to switch between multiple tasks at
once. Although it may seem seamless, you're actually shifting gears
slightly every time you move to another task. This gives your brain
more to do, and this is the reason why multitasking burns you out.

  **#2 - Paying Attention Is Productive
>>> We mistakenly think that multitasking is more productive!
You're doing more stuff at once, so you're getting more done, right?
>>> But the truth is that narrowing your focus and zeroing in on
one task at a time makes that task go faster and more smoothly.
It will take more time to do multiple tasks at once than it would
to do them in order!


  **#3 - Multitasking Multiplies Errors
>>> You may not have noticed, but when you multitask, you make
small errors you wouldn't usually make.
Go back over your work and check. Chances are you'll find tiny mistakes
which are the result of not giving the work the full attention it deserves.
Focus on one task at a time and you'll see higher quality work without
the mistakes. 

  **#4 - Multitasking-Induced Burnout
>>> When you start off with your multiple tasks, you might feel that
you're highly productive and getting things done. But it's likely
that after a while, a feeling of stress and burnout will descend upon
you, and you'll find your nerves frazzled, snapping at your team
members, and feeling like your computer could use a sound drop-kick.

>>> Multitasking causes stress, and this is why productivity experts
and psychologists warn against it!

  **#5 - Prioritizing to the Rescue
>>> There's never any need to multitask when you know how to
prioritize. Let's say that you have five things to do. Why not do them
all at once? Because instead, you can take each task and assign a level
of priority to it. Now, you have five items on a list that goes from most
important to least important.
>>> The truth is, you always have some tasks that are more important
than others. If you prioritize, you'll get the most important things done
quickly and right.


**#6 - Rub Your Tummy and Pat Your Head   (try it, now shift your hands)
>>> Now, rub your stomach while patting your head and, if you really
want to see why multitasking doesn't work, whistle the melody of the
last song you heard on the radio. You'll find these three simple things
exceedingly hard to do and this is a clear demonstration of
why multitasking isn't a good way to work!