Multitasking Essay

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Essay 1 Multitasking I’ have been asked to write my opinion on why I feel that multitasking is good or bad for our current and future generations. There are many reasons why this is bad and good. I will touch on some of my own experiences as well as those of some professionals. At the end of the article you will have heard a little on both sides why multitasking is, in my opinion going to hinder future generations. Let us start out with my own experience. Since I have not been to school for twelve years and never been to college before. I get my assignments everyday and have trouble just sitting down and getting started. There are simple distractions like the TV or a conversation with my roommate. When I do finally sit down to do the work, I will get a phone call or an email. This is a battle for me. For reasons I can’t explain, I find that it helps me to listen to some kind of music while I work. This helps me concentrate and focus my thoughts. This is just one of the many distractions that I will be touching on. As a society that multitasks in just about everything we do. These simple actions like driving down the road and having a conversation with the person next to you while the radio is playing. We find that these are actions that we will be doing, “in parallel with planning some other action,” says Hal Pashler, Psychology Professor at the University of California at San Diego. These actions are,“performed sequentially or one task at a time,” says Pashler. Multitasking is a function that we as humans were not meant to do. Our brains cannot handle deep concentration on more than one thing at a time, “your doing more than one thing, but you’re ordering them and deciding which one to do at any one time.” explains Jordan Grafman, Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
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