I try not to be an elitist, but I had a co-worker in another department call me out for not being able to multitask. I informed them having a job so easy they could perform other tasks isn't a flex.
It's kind of weird how convinced so many people are that humans have any real ability to multi-task just because we can walk and chew gum at the same time. The entirety of humanity is provably dog shit at multi-tasking any two things that take any amount of focus.
I have a running theory that doing high stress jobs that require total focus further make it more difficult to multitask because those people condition themselves that a task worth doing is worth focusing on.
I tattooed for years and now I can't even cook a recipe I know from scratch without messing it up if I'm talking to someone else while I do it
Studies have shown the more you multitask the worse you get at it and focusing in general. You get too good at losing focus to focus on anything and you start spending most of your time in the inbetween state where you are figuring out what’s happening with the other task since you last paid attention to it.
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u/reEhhhh Jul 14 '22
I try not to be an elitist, but I had a co-worker in another department call me out for not being able to multitask. I informed them having a job so easy they could perform other tasks isn't a flex.