{"id":1187,"date":"2014-09-10T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2016-02-10T05:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T05:57:53","slug":"multitasking-is-it-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/multitasking-is-it-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what Multitasking does to your brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"This is what Multitasking does to your brains\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>I recently came across an interesting article about multitasking. The author stated that only 2% of us are truly efficient multitaskers. The rest of us mortals are just trying very hard to be like the 2% of super-taskers. The author mentioned that Super-taskers are able to multitask because of an unusual genetic trait. Unfortunately she did not elaborate of what the genetic traits are. <\/p>\n<p>The author also stated that when we multi-task, our efficiency and productivity actually drops \u2013 by a whopping 40%!<\/p>\n<p>So this directly implies that if you are not amongst the 2% of super-taskers, you should not multitask because it will diminish our productivity significantly.  In addition, multitasking leaves us fatigued, and by the end of the workday, we feel totally exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>So if get off from work feeling totally drained, it could be because you have been multitasking at work.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, multitasking actually makes you dumber! A study cited by the author indicates that our IQ drops by up to 15 points by those who emailed and text-message at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don\u2019t want to feel and look stupid, you should minimize the number of tasks you are attempting to perform at any given time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Receive articles and Newsletters directly in your mailbox <em><strong>AND<\/strong><\/em> receive a sample chapter on <em><i><strong>How to Craft Effective Interview Questions<\/strong><\/i><\/em> from my yet-to-be released book <em><i><strong>How to Hire the Right People Every Time: The Executive&#8217;s Guide to Getting It Right<\/strong><\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get your free chapter <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/NHjHn\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"This is what Multitasking does to your brains\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across an interesting article about multitasking. The author stated that only 2% of us are truly efficient multitaskers. The rest of us mortals are just trying very hard to be like the 2% of super-taskers. The author mentioned that Super-taskers are able to multitask because of an unusual genetic trait. Unfortunately she did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurethink.com.sg\/devsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}