Is Multitasking Really A GOOD Thing?
I’m really not sure if it is. Multitasking sounds great, doesn’t it? It’s a word that is widely used among entrepreneurs and across various industries. It refers to someone’s ability to do many activities at once. Such as: write an email, discuss a contract on the phone, eat your sandwich, and watch you favorite show all at once.
The terms can be found in almost any job application and job offering: “You must be able to multitask” and “I’m a great multitasker and can handle many projects at once.”
Here’s a question: Can you have two separate thoughts simultaneously? Can your mind give two — or more — distinct thoughts your full attention at once? Unless you’ve somehow reached a level of thinking — and extremely rare — level of mind control… I doubt that you can. I’d even say that most people in the world can not.
So, with that said, why are all trying to split our minds? I believe that our quality of work and the attention that we can devote to something, can be greatly improved if we focus on one thing at a time.
When you eat — eat. When you talk on the phone — talk on the phone. When you write a letter — write a letter. When you are having a discussion with someone — have a discussion with someone.
I guess this way of thinking — being 100% immersed in whatever we are doing — is too simple for us. Instead, for some reason, we want to complicate everything, myself included.
We want to split our minds by attempting to do a million things at one. This empowers us and make us feel good about what we “think” we are really accomplishing. However, this is really diluting our mental output and decreasing the quality of whatever it is that we are trying to accomplish, create, manifest, what have you.
Imagine that someone gave you the task of catching 3 rabbits that escaped their cages in the woods. Now, would it be more effective trying to locate and capture all three rabbits at once OR would it be more effective to focus all of your attention on catching each rabbit separately? It would be nearly impossible to catch them all at once, but very realistic to catch them one by one.
Concentrate your mind power, don’t dilute it. Focus on something and become one with that something and only that something — nothing else. It’s tempting to try to do a million things at one, I know, but power and energy will undoubtedly be lost.
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