Multitasking Affects Your Brain and Productivity
One must one at a time.
We want to be under the illusion that we can manage two or more things at a time. And by doing this, we screw not one but a lot of things. It is because we are human, not mobile phones. So rather than multitasking, we should focus on one thing at a time to properly ace it. After that, we can do other things.
“Multitasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.”
— Jeremy Clarkson
The problem with multitasking is primarily not that you screw up your work. It has a lot of negative effects on your brain and productivity. Because when you have a lot of fingers in many pies, you are tearing apart your brain to do work faster and better and helping ‘Multitasking’ create an illusion of parallel activity, which in return gives us stress, says William R. Klemm, senior professor of Neuroscience at Texas A&M University. So here we have narrated ways through which multitasking might be affecting you, and you would not even suspect.
Permanent Brain Damage
According to a study from the University of Sussex, multitasking, especially with an electronic device involved, leads to permanent brain damage. They did a voluntary…
