speech on topic monotasking is more important than multitasking
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When speed, efficiency and performance count, monotasking wins every time, because multitasking doesn’t work
With busy lives, long working hours and multiple distractions it’s easy to see why trying to get more done by multitasking is appealing.
There’s just one problem. Multitasking doesn’t work, effectively reducing productivity by up to 40%.
We multitask because we think we can, because we believe we are good at it and because we think it saves us time and energy. It’s a pity because for 98% of us this isn’t true. The 2% of super taskers are the only ones endowed with the true cognitive ability to efficiently multitask and until science works out a way to help the rest of us overcome this we will have to manage using our existing cerebral model.
Can you train yourself to do better? No, it’s the one brain function that get’s worse with practice.
Multitasking or task switching doesn’t work because it requires the brain to operate in a way that it wasn’t designed to. The cognitive cost includes increased fuel requirements (oxygen and glucose) for the job leading to rapid mental exhaustion, reduced time efficiency, more mistakes, reduced creativity, poorer analysis of data and poorer decision-making.
Research studies have shown how chronic serial media multitaskers can fragment their attention to such a degree they reduce their ability to switch effectively to working well even on single tasks.