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• 18 Mar 12
  

  Katherine Bae

  new york times gives advice on multitasking

  new york times

  • 1. Don't think you can actually do two things at once.
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    2. Prioritize
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    3. Immerse yourself in your immediate task, but don't forget what remains to be done next.
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    4. Depend on routines -- and compare new tasks with old ones.
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    5. Make schedules, not to-do lists
  • By following such an approach, you can actually change your brain

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• 25 Oct 08
  

  Lars Tobias Skjong-Børsting

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• 26 Oct 07
  

  Qrystal MqKenzie

  multitasking productivity

  • maintain the intention to break
  • you can actually change your brain
  • clearly establish which tasks are more important than others
  • Don't think you can actually do two things at once.
  • What we call multitasking is actually task switching.
  • Blood flow to Area 10 increased when people kept a principal goal in mind while temporarily engaged in secondary tasks. "This is presumably the last part of the brain to evolve, the most mysterious and exciting part," Grafman says.
  • the role of Area 10. "If you're missing it due to injury or a birth defect," he explains, "you keep forgetting to do things."
  • Multitasking becomes easier, scientists believe, when you make parts of the process routine.
  • Make schedules, not to-do lists. And whatever you do, don't answer the phone. For those of us who find multitasking difficult, Burgess claims that the simplest aids -- like timers and alarms -- are the most effective.
  • An interruption breaks your train of thought and initiates a recall of what else needs to be done.

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• 11 Sep 07
  

  Jimmy Baikovicius

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• 27 Apr 07
  

  Gene Roche

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