http://www.mworker.com/en/to-multitask-or-not-to-multitask/ Are you are multitasker? I sure am. I used to view that as a beneficial skill, but I am enjoying it less and less and am starting to see the hazards of multitasking more clearly. I have been asking myself dozens of times lately, to multitask or not to multitask? Recently, there has been growing support for the hazards of multitasking. Dr. Paul Hammerness and Margaret Moore, authors of Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life , claim that multitasking increases the chances of making mistakes and hinders our problem solving skills. And this understanding about the downsides of multitasking is not even new. Already in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice to his son: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” To my amazement, one of the unforeseen benefits of the real-time time tracking is that it helps me stay focused on one task at a time. As I start a task on the application and the time starts ticking, in some strange way, I tend to be more focused on that one task. That doesn’t always work, but I tend to multitask less when I am using the Mobile Worker application to track my time. And, what is equally surprising to me, I feel much more productive when I don’t multitask. Do you agree with Lord Chesterfield that “this steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind”?

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To multitask or not to multitask?

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To multitask or not to multitask?
• Are you are multitasker? I sure am. I used to
view that as a beneficial skill, but I am
enjoying it less and less and am starting to see
the hazards of multitasking more clearly.

3. www.mworker.com
To multitask or not to multitask?
• Recently, there has been growing support for
the hazards of multitasking. Dr. Paul
Hammerness and Margaret Moore, authors of
Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life , claim
that multitasking increases the chances of
making mistakes and hinders our problem
solving skills.

4. www.mworker.com
To multitask or not to multitask?
• And this understanding about the downsides
of multitasking is not even new. Already in the
1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following
advice to his son: “There is time enough for
everything in the course of the day, if you do
but one thing at once, but there is not time
enough in the year, if you will do two things at
a time.”

5. www.mworker.com
To multitask or not to multitask?
• To my amazement, one of the unforeseen
benefits of the real-time time tracking is that it
helps me stay focused on one task at a time. As I
start a task on the application and the time starts
ticking, in some strange way, I tend to be more
focused on that one task. That doesn’t always
work, but I tend to multitask less when I am using
the Mobile Worker application to track my time.
And, what is equally surprising to me, I feel much
more productive when I don’t multitask.

6. www.mworker.com
To multitask or not to multitask?
• Do you agree with Lord Chesterfield that “this
steady and undissipated attention to one
object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as
hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-
failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous
mind”?

7. www.mworker.com