Multitasking: A Habit or a Necessity?

"One Minute Take: Multitasking: A Habit or a Necessity"

"To do Two things at once is to do neither." Thus said Roman philosopher Publilius Syrus to himself in 100 B.C.

Its obvious. Right now, while reading this post, you must be having atleast 3 tabs open on your web browser and you must probably be listening to music. Multitasking is a commonplace activity.

Handling multiple tasks at a time can be fun, but recent studies show that they are linked with stress and overload. Scientifically, it is referred to as "Cognitive Overload." But the BAD effects of Multitasking are only observed at workplaces and in the office atmosphere. One website quotes multitasking as an activity "Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible."

Listening to music while travelling, combining any activity with watching television, reading the newspaper or a book till whilst doing something else are actually shown to improve efficiency of a task. According to me, while multitasking it is always better to prioritise your jobs and to pair a less-brainy job with a not-so-less brainy job, as in the examples above. This will surely increase the speed and efficiency of the task at hand.

And last, and least, the term "Multitasking" was made for the computer industry, and NOT for Humans, so don't go too far with that habit. In the end, I leave you with some funny cartoons, depicting multitasking.

"One Minute Take is a series where I write on, giving my view of VERY random topics, the topics are randomly decided when I stumble my interests on Stumbleupon!"