Are you one of those people who say they do several things at the same time? If so, this article may interest you.
What are your habits when you work with the computer? Do you usually have several tabs open at the same time? Do you work while you have email open, and conversations open in chat, where you communicate with your colleagues? If so, pay attention because this article will interest you. When we talk about habits at work, generally, comes to mind: correct positions, balanced diet, restful sleep, and all those things that already, at least, sound familiar to us. But did you know that your way of organizing time is also a habit? And, what if I told you that sometimes we overestimate our abilities?
To enhance your intellectual capacity, not only stimulating it but offering small tricks such as organization of time and tasks ; keys to improve your memory, among many others. Today, we wanted to share a very interesting article that reappeared on social media recently.
A few years ago, a group of researchers published an article at Stanford University warning of the consequences of having several tabs open when browsing the web. There is the idea that there are people who are better at it, do several things at the same time But is this true?
Well, this study arose in order to demonstrate if there really are people who are more skilled at attending to several things at the same time. For this, two groups were made of about 100 students; The first group belonged to those who generally do several things at the same time on the computer; and the second group was made up of those who did not have this custom. The results were very interesting, since they debunked this myth.
Those who performed several tasks at the same time had worse execution of tasks It was concluded that people who do several things at once generally have:
1. They do not have a logical order
More problems when organize information and give a logical order to your thoughts.
2. Difficulty in choosing data
difficulties for filter the information irrelevant, which makes them waste cognitive resources because they end up handling more data than necessary.
3. They can’t disconnect
They are slower at time to disconnect from one task to another.
Therefore, it can be said that the statement that there are people capable of performing several tasks at the same time is false. That is to say, you can do it, but the execution will be much poorer than if it were done one at a time. Furthermore, according to the results of this study, a continuous bombardment of information not only generates problems when performing the task, but also has a negative impact in our attention and memory. Decreasing the capacity for retention and abstract elaboration.
