Hamok taghimo hampan yay
nahimo.
There is this current study on
multitasking which revisits the so-called efficacy of work in the 21st
century. People seem to embrace the world where multitasking is the name of the
game. There are those who are attending virtual meetings while signing papers
and checking emails. There is nothing wrong about it. Yet, something is
happening to the brain.
A report from healthshots.com
mentions: Multitasking is not just inefficient and affects your quality of
work, but it is stressful. This is because when you perform many tasks at one
time, your brain continuously switches between tasks. This increases the
chances of mistakes and errors at work and can result in high stress and
anxiety levels.
This is a logical consequence
of the lack of focus characteristic of multitasking. When doing several things
at once, your mind is divided between them so it’s only natural that your
mistakes will multiply. And according to the Stanford research, multitaskers
are terrible at filtering out irrelevant information.
Yes, there is nothing wrong
with performing one task at a time, but the QUALITY of the work and output will
be at stake.
In 2011, the University of
California, San Francisco published a research study showing how quickly
shifting from one task to another impacts short term memory. The impact is
always negative and becomes increasingly apparent as a person gets older. Just
because one can handle the tasks right now does not mean that in 5 or 10 years,
the person will be able to go on about life in the same way.
This is one of the discourses on
the study of higher order thinking at present. It seems that students are too
distracted with too many things their minds cannot concentrate on a single
task. Shifts of concentration happen and the ability to deepen ideas are
hampered. They need instant answers through Google and AI (like Chat GPT) so
that they can do more things at once.
Yes, we are too fast but our COGNITION
is slow.
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