Last week, just after posting the article about the secret of successful person that focus in every task he/she done and avoid multitasking, many response coming to challenge that argument. One of them said that many housewives do multitasking every weekdays morning successfully, such as feeding a baby while preparing the breakfast for the family, and at the same time help and assist another kids to brush his/her teeth. Another argument said that it might work for business and industrial issues but not in your daily life. Are you agree with that?
If we take a look at the situation, doing multitasking create a potential risk. The well trained mother might able to feed the baby while cooking, but it’s not eliminated the potential risk of hurting her baby while doing another morning activity. She might minimized the risk, but never eliminated, the accident could happen while she loose her focus.
Even when the potential risk is very low, and so with the occurence rate, multitasking will not giving you the optimum result though you can complete the job. To be successfully create the high quality result, you need to be focus on what you are doing. I will quoted the article written by Ilya Pozin (@ilyaneversleeps) in his article, "7 things highly productive people do."
Even when the potential risk is very low, and so with the occurence rate, multitasking will not giving you the optimum result though you can complete the job. To be successfully create the high quality result, you need to be focus on what you are doing. I will quoted the article written by Ilya Pozin (@ilyaneversleeps) in his article, "7 things highly productive people do."
“Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).”
Yes, multitasking push you less focus and decrease your concentration as said by John Rampton (@johnrampton) in his article, “15 Proven Tips to Be Happy at Work”, that said despite the myth, multitasking isn't effective. Clifford Nass, a psychology professor at Stanford University claims that multitasking "wastes more time than it saves." He also states that it decreases concentration and creativity. Instead of getting overwhelmed by the amount of work you're trying to juggle through multitasking, focus on one task at a time. Many do well with a simple checklist to accomplish this.
I think the issue of avoiding multitasking is one of the principle in management, and therefore, it would be applicable in every activity of life. Focus on every task, and start it with the most importance thing would help you effectively reach your goals, both in business and life, as I did myself. To successfully reduce the labor cost from 20% to 16% while the minimum wages increased double in 4 years, or improved my annual revenue by 10 times in 5 years, is just possible by doing any task with a fully concentration and focus on what the most important first.
I think the issue of avoiding multitasking is one of the principle in management, and therefore, it would be applicable in every activity of life. Focus on every task, and start it with the most importance thing would help you effectively reach your goals, both in business and life, as I did myself. To successfully reduce the labor cost from 20% to 16% while the minimum wages increased double in 4 years, or improved my annual revenue by 10 times in 5 years, is just possible by doing any task with a fully concentration and focus on what the most important first.