Multitasking is a major fault that I have. In class today we were talking about multitasking versus focusing on one thing only. Personally I think that multitasking is a bad thing but if you think about it we are doing it everyday. I think that there are two different types of multitasking. One that is completely harmless to you and other is the one where you do too much things and you can't focus when you want to. Things like the internet, texting, and TV are all things that make u not able to focus. Sometime music is too. For an example, when I was little and I didn't know how to use the internet I focused on my school work more. But now since I've grown up, its become a habit where I am constantly on the computer checking this and that making me unable to focus. This caused me to do longer periods of homework and in the end I might not even understand it.
I think for people to beat the "bad" multitasking is to focus more and gradually lessen the task that you have to do until you are focusing on one thing you want to do. The "good" multitasking is very different than the bad one because it is something we are always constantly doing such as listening to music and walking. I think that the "good" multitasking is a good skill to master because when you grow older more tasks ahead of you so it would nice if you knew how to juggle all of those things. It also great for working too. Things would be done a lesser rate. In conclusion, I think that people should learn what is good multitasking and bad so they know how to spend their time wisely instead of sitting their doing stuff way longer than expected.
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I'm sorry that the writing prompt ended up giving you the impression that multitasking is a "fault." But I get your point that multitasking can be either useful or harmful, and you make the distinction pretty clear.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed hard to keep distractions at bay these days, with all this information flying at us all the time. Lord knows I have to tear myself away from the internet's stream of consciousness sometimes, too...