Survive Everyday
The Survive Everyday Podcast explores the stories and systems that shape our lives, focusing on resilience, inequality, and change. Through candid conversations with individuals, policymakers, and experts, we uncover the hidden barriers that keep people struggling and discuss solutions to dismantle them. Our mission is simple: to spark understanding, challenge the status quo, and inspire action toward a fairer, more equitable world.
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18: Multitasking is a Myth
So what is multitasking? Let’s start there.
Indeed labels multitasking as the ability to manage multiple responsibilities at once by focusing on one task while keeping track of others. Multitasking creates a greater demand on your cognitive resources, like attention and working memory. Indeed also gives an example of responding to an email while listening to a podcast. That’s awesome. If you are listening to this podcast and sending an email, good job. I want to talk about why this increase in brain activity can be bad for you.
Links:
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/multi-tasking-skills#:~:text=Multitasking%20refers%20to%20the%20ability,one%20right%20after%20the%20other
https://thewell.unc.edu/2020/10/05/need-a-creativity-boost/#:~:text=Multitasking%20creates%20a%20greater%20demand,ways%20because%20of%20cognitive%20flexibility
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/example-of-multitasking#:~:text=Here%20are%20the%20most%20common,while%20reading%20the%20fine%20print
Single tasking is the new multitasking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzbxpzKwDXA
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