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Topic: Multi-tasker or not?
Phuque Joined Mon 11/17/08 Posts: 14151	Mon 03/09/09 08:38 AM
I can clean my oven, watch TV, drink a beer, smoke a cig, polish my nails, have sex with my B/F...& microwave popcorn...providing he is doing it from behind & it only takes 4 & a 1/2 minutes...

Phuque2 Joined Thu 11/20/08 Posts: 4927	Mon 03/09/09 10:01 AM
I can clean my oven, watch TV, drink a beer, smoke a cig, polish my nails, have sex with my B/F...& microwave popcorn...providing he is doing it from behind & it only takes 4 & a 1/2 minutes... Leave out the popcorn and you get another 30 seconds, baby.

FireOfThePhoenix Joined Thu 02/07/08 Posts: 14098	Mon 03/09/09 10:28 AM
Very much so, I have a hard time not doing multiple things at the same time, side effect of a job and a to do list around that house that seems never ending.

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Mon 03/09/09 10:29 AM
I am not one. I don't like having to do multiple things at once. I get too confused. How about you? I have to do multiple things for my job. The brain is always ticking.

krupa Joined Thu 07/03/08 Posts: 18651	Mon 03/09/09 10:37 AM
I can cry and masturbate at the same time....the down side is...I gotta use twice the amount of tissue. I hope to use that skill on America's Got Talent next season.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Mon 03/09/09 12:09 PM
I am definitely a multi-tasker.

lilith401 Joined Wed 10/31/07 Posts: 19593	Mon 03/09/09 12:10 PM
I can cry and masturbate at the same time....the down side is...I gotta use twice the amount of tissue. I hope to use that skill on America's Got Talent next season. Let me know when they air that episode, I don't watch and I want to make sure I see that one.....

cottonelle Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 3594	Mon 03/09/09 12:13 PM
when people multitask we get stupid because the brain slows down when it has to juggle tasks

ameryn Joined Tue 03/03/09 Posts: 22	Mon 03/09/09 12:15 PM
I can be a multi-tasker when I need to be. Generally, I'm really good at it... I have excellent organization skills, which helps. But if I'm just goofing off and not TRYING, then I can hardly focus on one task!

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Mon 03/09/09 12:17 PM
when people multitask we get stupid because the brain slows down when it has to juggle tasks I multi-task a lot at work. I have to. I wouldn't consider myself stupid, though. Not by a long shot.

lilith401 Joined Wed 10/31/07 Posts: 19593	Mon 03/09/09 12:19 PM
when people multitask we get stupid because the brain slows down when it has to juggle tasks Ahhhh. Evidence of multitasking by thinking of too many bodily functions and orifices.. HERE IS PROOF!!!!

cottonelle Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 3594	Mon 03/09/09 02:33 PM
when people multitask we get stupid because the brain slows down when it has to juggle tasks I multi-task a lot at work. I have to. I wouldn't consider myself stupid, though. Not by a long shot. i`m not calling anyone stupid, but there was a study done about multitasking and thats just how they put it. i read about it in readers digest but will see if i can find it on the internet

cottonelle Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 3594	Mon 03/09/09 02:42 PM
here it is.... When we multitask, we get stupid. That inflammatory title is from a section header in "7 Dumb Things We Do", by Joeseph T. Hallinan, published in March 2009 Reader's Digest. The article begins on page 166. I'll be quoting for section 3, page 170-171. With a source as great as Reader's Digest, I'm sure this is the final word on this topic. "3. When we multitask, we get stupid. The brain slows down when we have to juggle tasks. [...] researchers asked adults to identify two images [...] when the participants saw colored crosses and shapes at the same time, they needed almost a full second of reaction time to press a button. Even then, they often made mistakes. If the participants were asked to identify the images one at a time [...] the process went almost twice as fast." "Switching from task to task creates other problems. We can forget what we were doing or planned to do. The to-do list in our brains is known as working memory, and it keeps track of all the short-term stuff we need to remember [...]." "But the contents of our working memory can evaporate like water in a desert; only after about two seconds, things begin to disappear. Within 15 seconds of considering a new problem, you'll have forgotten the old problem. In some cases the forgetting rate can be as high as 40 percent.Working studies have found it takes up to 15 minutes to regain a deep state of concentration after a distraction." And now a quote Sharky can use against old fogies, same article, end of section: "This was especially true for older [people]. The older we are, the harder it becomes to screen out distractions. The decline is noticeable after age 40."