You know what bugs me is that a lot of people say that humans aren’t capable of multi-tasking and I know what they really mean to say is that humans are not proficient with performing multiple tasks at the same time.
Juggling, singing, working, & being awesome.
Well I’m here to say that, much like all statistics, that is an average of the sample that this statistical analysis was done on. Do you think the top 3% of people, effective people in the whole world don’t know how to do multiple tasks at a time? Do you think that these people don’t know how to do what is important, delegate what’s not and coordinate all of this at the same time?
Could that be understood as doing multiple things at the same time? Trust me, multi-tasking can be trained and is a wonderful thing for ultimate productivity in your life. So let’s bust 3 lies about multi-tasking that are probably causing you grief and not letting you get enough done in your life.
#1. It Is Super Easy And Effortless To Do
This is mostly true for a trained multi-tasker. How you can get started out is by recognizing that certain tasks require a left brain approach and other tasks involve a right brained approach. What this means is that something that requires your dedicated, logical or vocal attention can’t be mixed with something that also requires a logical or mathematical approach.
However, if you can do something like data entry while learning about a topic through an audio book, you will be pleasantly surprised at how much you can learn while doing a relatively mundane task.
This is just a simple example to let you understand that combining tasks that don’t overrun the critical processes of the brain is perfectly doable and an awesome thing to start incorporating into your life.
Think about how you can mix what we would normally call brainless tasks with those other things that require a conscious effort or attention. In those combos is where you’ll find your multi-tasking practice.
#2. It Can Make Your Job Easier And Better
How much more enjoyable would your job be if you could learn stuff while you’re doing simple things like data entry or organizing or scanning. Would you finally be able to read those 10 books that have been on your to read list.
Would you finally be able to pick up some of those motivational and awesome business skills that you’ve been looking to add to your repertoire all these years. Or what about be able to do some of that boring data entry stuff while you’re on a telecon or during a meeting.
I know some will say that you’re taking focus away from the task at hand, but if you know your place in the meeting or telecom you’ll know about how much attention you need to pay and what you can expect out of it.
You really can make your job easier and better by a better utilization of the tasks that you do and the time that you commit. It’s definitely worth a shot and it only gets better with experience.
#3. It Can Make Your Mind Work More Effortlessly
The more and more you practice anything the better you get at it. All of these tactics are going to be tough at first because you don’t have the neural pathways in your brain weeded out to accept this way of operation and thinking when you start making these connections in your brain and start wearing down that path to where it’s really easy for those signals to go you’ll begin to see a whole new world of productivity.
It’s like picking up speed reading and effective communication techniques, the instant you begin to understand that taking in information more effectively and putting in filters that get rid of all the crap, you begin to see the world in a whole new light. You begin to pick up only what matters.
You begin to be able to summarize and get a greater understanding of the task at hand and you can even begin to see patterns between different subjects and how they all come together to form new creations that can change the world. You begin to tap in to the creative and entrepreneurial mindset of finding solutions to everything and optimizing on a continual basis. Trust me.
Practice Multi-Tasking And Become A Productivity Wizard
Trust me, multi-tasking is a completely reasonable and awesome thing that should be part of your life. You will enhance your overall productivity and efficiency of life if you’ll destroy the three lies of multitasking that are told so much. People often think that it’s hard to do.
They lie about it making your work more difficult and less efficient and they say it makes your brain overall slower and less efficient by not being able to do it. These lies need to be dispelled and hopefully you won’t believe them anymore.
Try to combine tasks, try to see where you can fit more learning into the mundane portions of your life and it’s time to start making your brain work better.