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How Great Are You At Performing Multiple Tasks?
So you were told that it’s impossible to multitask?
Rumors go, we can’t multitask…
When we look at it from a neurobiological point of view, Multitasking is non-existent! The brain can only concentrate on one thing because consciousness has only one content at any given time.
But let’s start with what multitasking means. Multitasking or multi-task performance is the execution of two or more tasks simultaneously or alternately in short periods of time. A person does different things one after the other within a longer period of time or the simultaneous completion of several tasks.
The tasks are independent of each other, so the goal of one task is not dependent on the results of the other task.
The key issue here is “Your brain” Another problem is how we classify what multitasking is.
Our brain is a whole, but this whole exists out of different components that work together to make us do what we do daily. One of the most important features of our brain is that with a lot of training, behavior, and reasoning can move from the conscious, energy-, willpower- and time-consuming reflecting brain to the unconscious, effortless reflex brain and become automatic, spontaneous.
