Monthly Archives: October 2014

Multitasking

Posted on October 8th, 2014

Many studies, such those described by Dr. Jim Taylor here, say that multitasking is less productive than people like to believe. This is because it is impossible for the human brain to preform two similar activities at the same time (such as talking on the phone and writing an email). When most people think they are multitasking, they are, in fact, serial tasking: going from one task to another.