Soar to Success December 2019

Do you ever clean out your email inbox when listening to a conference call at work? What about taking a call from a colleague when at your child’s baseball game? “There’s just so much to do each day” you say. “I have to do at least two things at once or I’ll never get everything done!” Well, I hear you. But, just like I cannot take a sip of coffee and talk on the phone at the same “To do two things at once is to do neither.” -Publius Syrus By Joan Washburn time, our brains cannot process 2 separate events. Recent neuroscience research tells us that the brain doesn’t really do tasks simultaneously as we once thought. In fact, we just switch tasks quickly. Each time we move from listening in on the conference call to writing an email or talking to someone, there is a stop/start process that goes on in our brains. That start/stop/start process is a real energy waster. Rather than saving time, it costs time (even very small micro Bad News for Multi- taskers