Comments on: Multi-Tasking Mania http://www.littlehouseinthevalley.com/multi-tasking-mania Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Susan Tiner http://www.littlehouseinthevalley.com/multi-tasking-mania/comment-page-1#comment-250 Susan Tiner Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:52:52 +0000 http://www.littlehouseinthevalley.com/?p=863#comment-250 As I read your post, it sounds like you work really hard, and efficiently complete your tasks one at a time with time carefully allocated to each one. To me this is not multi-tasking, which I think of as trying to complete one than one task at a time. Per this NY Times article, research shows that multitasking results in worse not better performance: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/weekinreview/30pennebaker.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=multitasker&st=cse As I read your post, it sounds like you work really hard, and efficiently complete your tasks one at a time with time carefully allocated to each one. To me this is not multi-tasking, which I think of as trying to complete one than one task at a time. Per this NY Times article, research shows that multitasking results in worse not better performance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/weekinreview/30pennebaker.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=multitasker&st=cse

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