How to do one thing at a time
This summary identifie's that we shouldn't multi task, since our brain's have congitive limits. Yet people are working while on the phone, or multi tasking decreasing there lack of focus. Which can result's into you being less productive. Then multasking can become more dangerous when texting while driving, or talking on the phone. That make's it very dangerous for people's lives thats are on the road. Since you are multi tasking it makes you get carried away from a your other task, which can be driving resulting into some ones life. So it shows what degrees multi tasking can have on us. So its alway's better to do a task according to sequence.
What i like the author mentions is that it was proven by Professors at Stanford University for some students to multi task, and other students to focus on there main task. The students that performed there main task with out multi tasking exceeded way better, and had better memory. I felt that was a very significant idea to prove we shouldnt multi task, due to the lack of focus. Us humans have a certain amount of task our mind can work on. So it's jus better off to take it task by task by completing it according to sequence.
I am proof to explain that multi tasking can be very defective. I am a sales associate at macy's and work with selling woman shoes. There where days like black friday i would be faced with up to ten customers at the same time.Customers complaining they have been waiting to long for shoe's, resulting into me being less productive. When the days go by smooth and i can serve one or two customers at a time i am always being productive. so thats proves that doing task according to sequence is proven to be better.
Hi Michael
ReplyDeleteI'm Diana, a tutor for my teaching writing seminar. I looked over your analysis to the article "How To Do One Thing at a Time" and I just want to give you a few pointers to hopefully help you with your writing.
I think you understood the article well because you were able to formulate your own stand on what is and is not beneficial about multitasking. You used examples from the article like the Stanford study which is good.
However, I didn't really see how you summarized the article. Also, you might want to describe in a sentence what is "task according to sequence" because it seems to be an important idea. The sentence structure is not clear and you have to practice and understand when to use an apostrophe(') because many times you used it is unnecessary.
Great use of personal experience. Just a quick point, however, your personal experience is very good but because of the word choice and spelling it is not as great as it could be. I suggest that after you finish writing, read your piece outloud and I'm sure you will catch alot of your mistakes. This really works! Like I mentioned before, be extra careful about when and how to use apostrophes.
It is clear that you understood the article. Just be careful about the way you put your sentences and the words you use. Try to read outloud after you finish writing.
Best of Luck
D.