Losing Focus

Now trust me, that’s not very efficient. In the case of multitasking your brain is like a computer. I know, the same thing that very well causes you to be unproductive does the samething to itself. WHen you begin to run to many programs on your computer it actually slows down and may even crash causing any of the work you may have done to go down the drain. Similarly, by multitasking, you actually make it harder for yourself to stay on task as a part of the brain called the striatum has to burn more oxygenated glucose, causing you to lose focus and be more tired than before. Explain more thoroughly with

In the essay “Multitasking can make you lose … Um … Focus” Alina Tugend exams why multitasking causes you to lose focus and how it is counterproductive. Tugend explains what multitasking is in the first section and that since the 90s we have widely accepted it into our daily lives. She also brings a credible professor named Earl Miller to elaborate on multitasking and how it is explained in a scientific manor. As this professor goes on he talks about how its misleading and that multitasking doesn’t actually benefit us, it actually hinders are ability to be productive. Tugend uses multiple case studies to back up this information and to even support her own argument that multitasking causes loss of focus.

On a daily basis, there will always be activities that can deter you from executing your goals. Its how you manage those happenings, to stay focused on your work, is what separates those that can get consistently get it done, and those who fall

In the essay “Multitasking can make you lose … Um … Focus” Alina Tugend exams why multitasking can make you lose focus. Tugend explains what multitasking is in the first section she also explains why it is bad. She then brings in a professor to explain how multitasking works in a scientific way. Alina Tugend then uses case studies to show how multitasking can cause loss of focus and impairment in motor activities. She then shows how multitasking can actually delay your progress on completing projects by constantly switching to different tasks. Tugend then sums it all up by trying to teach us how to better ourselves and to not multitask.

The most interesting detail that I observed throughout the documentary was the way of John Smith was thinking during emergency moments. John Smith was able to manage to escape the fight with the Native Americans by showing them a simple compass and making them distracted by it. Also, John Smith discovered a new style of trading, which is called “silent trade”. Being a true leader, he managed to trade with the Native Americans for food, in order for him and his settlers to stay alive. Since most of the settlers were gentlemen, they were not able to work with their hands, therefore, they had no food and limited access to their needs.

People who undergo an upsetting situation due to their health, tend to find other things such as hobbies to take their mind off of what they can’t control. This need for distraction is present in Rosalind Warren in “Furniture Fight”, In which Linda has terminal cancer and focuses on furniture and is able to change and redesign the way she wants, because that takes her mind off of how weak she is and how she can’t do anything about it. To that effect, the story suggests that when people are suffering from deeper problems they often distract themselves with smaller issues they can control. This sad reality is shown by the father who deals with the death of his first and soon to be second dead wife by showing interests in their hobbies as well as Linda’s irrational obsession with furniture.

Multitasking, helpful or harmful? In Alina Tugend’s “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus”, Tugend explores multitasking in several ways. Explaining how we as humans sacrifice focus “shifting focus from task to task gives illusion that we’re simultaneously tasking”. Also, how our brains react to operating and trying to do more than one task at once. Only one or two visual stimulants can activate our neurons at one particular time. Lastly, how we can recreate boundaries and cope with everyday life and multitasking. Tugend reiterates several times the importance of one task at a time so we as humans can effectively complete tasks to the best of our abilities instead of giving partial focus and not efficiently completely a task. Multitasking is very beneficial at times, but more often there are significant downfalls; it is crucial we learn how to manage the downfalls of juggling tasks, events, conversations, and daily events.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Determine never to be idle… If is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” I believe that always doing accomplishes more than doing nothing. The reasons I believe this is because actions always produce results. Also, you will always make progress no matter what you are doing. If we always accomplish by doing, then what can be accomplished if you do nothing? You can’t achieve any sort of goal if you do nothing; therefore, I agree with Thomas Jefferson.

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer introduced and described a variety of fictional characters that lived in the Middle Ages. It was the time period that European civilians were governed by a system called feudalism. Where kings were the head of the system and everyone was categorized in social classes. In the prologue of The Canterbury Tales the first character introduced was the knight. Geoffrey Chaucer depicts the knight correctly by characterizing him as a chivalrous and honorable man, which contrasted him from the rest who had bad behaviors and that he was a heroic figure.

Or, working diligently to complete a task? Enraptured by a video game? The skill of focus, tuning out distractions, is at work.

“Determine never to be idle” quoted by Thomas Jefferson. Is it better to always be doing or is inactivity the better option? I believe that being inactive is the best option because it gives you an opportunity to set goals to reach your peak. It also gives you time to realize what is necessary to achieve and what is not. Realizing its better to focus and execute your goals allow you to do more than you have ever.

The 1850s were a tumultuous time in the United States of America. As the country expanded westward, many important questions regarding slavery were arising. Mainly, there was a dispute between the South and the North over what newly admitted states would be free, and which states should sanction slavery. The debate was resolved—albeit temporarily—by the Compromise of 1850. All the while, women in the United States were also pushing for equality. Although women did not receive the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, the women 's suffrage movement picked up measurable gains during the time around 1850. Most notably there is the first women’s rights convention, held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. This event

There are many benefits of being active, it is good for you and it is a good way to socialise with others, regular physical activity can help prevent heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and some cancers and it can help to avoid injuries. Research suggests that those who eat a wide variety of nutritious foods enjoy living a longer life. .Other benefits of healthy eating include:

The second benefit you can gain from persistence is good work ethic. It is important to be

4). It is very difficult to do “two complex tasks” at once (Paul 5). For instance, doing email and listening to the phone. These tasks diverts the mind due to which people do not focus properly on them and results in lower efficiency. Multitaskers omit much information and it takes time to refocus on both of them. Therefore, “Efficiency can drop by as much as 40%” (Atchly par. 2). Peter Bregman mentions that in the reality, “the more you multitask, the worse you are at it” (519). It means that multitasking decrease the ability to think and focus after switch task. Multitasking not only affects the quality of the work…, … it can affect the brain’s gray matter , which is associated with memory, decision making and more” (Vito par. 8). Hence, multiple tasks results in the poor productivity.