How Men Multi-Task

Running a Technorati tag of multi-tasking revealed the following:

Conversations from the Edge
Jen:
John, where's your toothbrush?

John:
I don't know, it might be in the shower.

Jen:
You brush your teeth in the shower?

John:
Yeah, I like to multi-task. I'd do more in the shower but I don't think you would approve.

Source: http://jon-a-ross.livejournal.com/389852.html

Tags: multi-task learning memory man shower language study

Pay Attention Woman

Just out is a study of multi-tasking which confirms basically that if you try to do more than one thing at a time you fail miserably. The article carries weight because it is scientifically constructed. The idea that if you do 2 things at once you will somehow get twice as much out as you put in is, and always has been, rubbish. Children who grow up in a bilingual society do not simply learn 2 languages. Their linguistic ability in both languages is seriously impaired when compared with children learning only one language. Or, to take the example in the article, driving and talking on a mobile phone seriously compromises your ability to drive (not to mention the garbage that comes out of your mouth).

The best way to learn and assimilate what you have learned is to do it in silence and with singularity of purpose.

All of a sudden the notion that women can multi-task makes sense to me!

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=48187&nfid=rssfeeds

Tags: multi-task learning memory woman mobile phone language study

Not Anon

On a similar note to the last post I like this idea:

Tom Byrnes (he phrased it better, but this is the gist of it):

"Ask yourself this: Which is more important to you? Who is on the bus with you or where the bus is going?"

Source: http://www.danperlman.net/me.htm

This is really hard for me.

Pierre

Anon

That most prolific of writers, Anon, has been at it again. I scribbled this one down but before I could say 'Holy Caped Crusader' he was gone without revealing his identity.

'It is not our abilities that show who we are - it is our choices.'

Works for me - every time.

Pierre