I feel a little guilty, because I might to have been
able to do more useful and valuable things in the same time frame…
Now I am learning more about mindfulness (the energy
to be 100% present) and awareness (sensory perception) I got the insight this
thought is not the truth and it’s very easy to explain why.
Occasionally I do with guests an exercise in relation
to this. In general, it is stated that women are better in it than men, and, in
practice, this appears to be the truth hearing the results.
I ask my guests to just be quiet for a moment, close
their eyes and for themselves to perceive how many things they can think of at
the same time.
Women sometimes come out at four or five. Men usually
remain hanging on three or four.
And the real solution? They do not tell the truth. It is
not possible at all.
And in the same way as it is not possible to breath in or exhale two,
three or four times in the same time, so it is also not possible to think on
two, three, four or even five things at the same time. What we actually do is
we accelerate our thinking process and are not even able anymore to see it as
different following thought high speed. You can see it as going to the movie
and speed up the film. The individual picture frames show up faster but you are
not really getting a nice and relaxed view watching the movie this way. You
serve yourself with an overkill of incentives and enable yourself to be fast(er)
tired.
When we are fully aware and connected to something we
do, we do not make (m)any mistakes. Speeding up doing more and more things in
the same time, we create the opportunity to do make many mistakes. These errors
should be repaired but we want and have to do it in the same time. So, we
create even more tasks to do in the same time. Even in our personal lives we
want to do things SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and
Time-bound), creating less and less opportunity to give creativity and
‘professional improvisation’ a chance.
So in the same time we add even more (repair) work and
increase our stress. At the end of the day you were certainly very ‘busy’ and
maybe, tired, ask yourself: "What I've actually been doing today and what
have I accomplished?"
When you think of the quality of your work and your
involvement with it, you can put a lot of question marks. And I'm not even talking
about the nearly continuous abuse and diversion because of the way we want to
stay 'connected' with our digital resources with everything that is happening in
the world around us.
In any case at least you can see the ‘harvest’ of
multitasking as:
- Less attention
-
More chance of errors
-
Creating and building
up more and more stress
-
Lower quality and
connection
- A sense of under performance and less achievement
- Less enjoyment of the fun you can experience doing the thing you do.
Experience has been shown in various studies that it is not only a sense of under-performance, but it is less achievement.
- Less enjoyment of the fun you can experience doing the thing you do.
Experience has been shown in various studies that it is not only a sense of under-performance, but it is less achievement.
The "harvest" of multitasking? How do you
get more stressed and become less productive and connected to life?
So, slow down your pace. Be more connected to the
tasks and activities that you do and enjoy. Do less different things in the
same time. If you eat for example, be aware of the food
and of tasting (doing this, usually you eat even less). Enjoy that activity the
fullest. A cell-phone on the table distract your attention from the art of
enjoying your food.
Frans Captijn
Host / Catalyst / Talenteer at Captijn Insight
Captijn Insight: “Catalyst in your process to new sustainable flow in life and work. Whether you are an individual, couple, team or an organization.”
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