Multitasking is not something new to today’s modern society. We as people believe by doing multiple things at a time is faster and more of an effective way of doing things. In Alina Tugend’s New York Times article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Umm…Focus,” she explains that multitasking serves otherwise. She informs that it does more harm to our brain and body by causing us to lose focus and dividing our brains attention span in a way it was not meant to. Being an eighteen year old part time employee and full time student I found I could relate very well to this article. Therefore this reading needs to be featured in IVYT 101 course to ensure students like me, a safe and effective way through college. Edward M. Hallowell, a psychiatrist and author of “CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap!” indicates “Multitasking is shifting focus from one task to another in rapid succession. It gives the illusion that we’re simultaneously tasking, but we’re really not. It’s like playing tennis with three balls.” (Tugend 714). When I’m stressed I tend to get anxious and lose focus wherein I try to take some of the work load of my shoulders, I’m sure others do this too, to do so I switch from one thing to another hoping to get something done ahead of time, which in reality never happens. As Edward Hallowell comments “you have to keep in mind that you sacrifice focus when you do this,” (Tugend 714). Most people know that focus is key to any accomplishment, if one do not focus on the task at hand the end result is most likely to come out less efficient and will more than likely have to redo what they just did. In order to avoid this do not divide the brain’s attention to multiple tasks because that is not how the brain functions, just like in IVYT when we learn that our brain has to relax at some point just like if it were a muscle.
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