Multitasking
Is multitasking an advanced set of skills allowing a person to accomplish and handle more and tasks and situations in a day?
Or is multitasking a polite way of describing someone who is scatterbrained and erratic and who cant focus on one thing from start to finish?
Or does multitasking mean spmething different to you?
UpwardThrust
22-09-2006, 02:00
Is multitasking an advanced set of skills allowing a person to accomplish and handle more and tasks and situations in a day?
Or is multitasking a polite way of describing someone who is scatterbrained and erratic and who cant focus on one thing from start to finish?
Or does multitasking mean spmething different to you?
The first option for me ... I easily handle staying on two or three projects being able to keep track of each of them in every detail for hours
I can hardly lable myself as scatter brained when this focus is kept for hours on end between the same set of tasks
The Black Forrest
22-09-2006, 02:12
For me it's both.
I usually reading about 6 books and I have about 25 projects going on at work.
I can also be rather scatterbrained when I reach burn out level.
Never mind the fact my long term memory is about 5 minutes. ;)
I can type a paper for class and post on NS at the same time and some find that to be an amazing feat. :)
Liberated New Ireland
22-09-2006, 02:15
I can type a paper for class and post on NS at the same time and some find that to be an amazing feat. :)
Depends on the class...
Strummervile
22-09-2006, 02:16
Is multitasking an advanced set of skills allowing a person to accomplish and handle more and tasks and situations in a day?
Or is multitasking a polite way of describing someone who is scatterbrained and erratic and who cant focus on one thing from start to finish?
Or does multitasking mean spmething different to you?
Actually they just came out with a studdy saying people who multi task to much cant concentrate as well as those who dont, and eventually leads to overtress and such. Also it said those who multi task to often tend to do their jobs worse than those who dont. forgot where I read it though cant remeber the details.
Antikythera
22-09-2006, 02:16
right now iam eating, writing a paper on the iliad, talking on the phone chatting with a friend and lisening to music, and iam posting on ns....you tell me
The Black Forrest
22-09-2006, 02:20
Actually they just came out with a studdy saying people who multi task to much cant concentrate as well as those who dont, and eventually leads to overtress and such. Also it said those who multi task to often tend to do their jobs worse than those who dont. forgot where I read it though cant remeber the details.
I would be curious to the study.
I multitask all the time and I have a problem with hyper-focusing.
They pay me rather well so I must be doing something right. ;)
Depends on the class...
History. I don't recall having to write any papers other than in my English classes.
Murderous maniacs
22-09-2006, 02:21
well, this semester at uni i'm doing two separate projects with robots. that get's kinda confusing...
Piratnea
22-09-2006, 02:24
Multitasking to me is...
Playing Nationstates while talking with people from FAFSA because their email farked up and didn't give me my PIN.
I've heard that it's not good to try to multitask, because no matter how well you think you're doing on all the tasks, you're actually giving just a small percentage of your focus, skills, and knowledge to each thing.
It's one thing to be making a simple dinner and watching a TV show and tidying up the room at the same time, but I'd say it's quite another to be studying, doing another assignment on the computer, listening to music, and chatting on IM at the same time.
Same with driving and talking on the phone, really.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
22-09-2006, 02:27
Uh.... neither?
For me, multitasking is very clearly limited to someone doing several things at the same time - like for example talking on the phone and replying to emails at the same time.
Reading several books "at the same time" or doing several projects at work "at the same time" isn't multitasking to me - unless you're actually doing it at the same time.
ETA: I suck at multitasking. Which is why I'm always the sore spot in any of my girlfriends' "Pffft, men suck at multitasking, but women are great at it!" speeches. >.<
Multitasking is the ability to focus all of your senses on one thing (impossible to focus them on more than one) and be able to input and analyze all of the data gathered in the brain at one time. I can do it. It's great fun.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
22-09-2006, 02:34
Multitasking is the ability to focus all of your senses on one thing (impossible to focus them on more than one) and be able to input and analyze all of the data gathered in the brain at one time. I can do it. It's great fun.
o.O
Um.... wouldn't that be the exact opposite of multitasking, not being able to focus on more than one thing at the same time? Am I missing something?
o.O
Um.... wouldn't that be the exact opposite of multitasking, not being able to focus on more than one thing at the same time? Am I missing something?
No, techincally you're focusing more than one sense on more than one thing. That's focusing on more than one thing. Sure, your sense is focused on only one thing, but your mind isn't.
Cannot think of a name
22-09-2006, 02:56
I have to multitask all the time when I work. I have a half dozen people asking me to do two or three things each and to them it's the most important and urgent thing in the world so I just have to do it. So maybe I'll get one thing done on the way to do another thing and while I'm doing that I'm solving another thing and all the work I do overlaps.
The only thing thats frustrating about that is that after a flurry of things like that I'll stand around for two hours because nobody has anything for me to do...
Smunkeeville
22-09-2006, 03:11
I have to multi-task or I wouldn't get all the stuff done that I need to do.
I hate it though because the perfectionist in me feels like nothing is getting enough attention.
I have to multi-task or I wouldn't get all the stuff done that I need to do.
I hate it though because the perfectionist in me feels like nothing is getting enough attention.
The hurrieder I do the behinder I get.
Smunkeeville
22-09-2006, 03:16
The hurrieder I do the behinder I get.
I so get that today, try working 3 jobs when you have a 102.4 temp and a Nyquil hangover.....not happening. :p