Multitasking—a medical and mental hazard
Multitasking Damages Your Brain, health And Career
Multitasking reduces your
efficiency and performance because your brain can only focus on one thing at a
time. When you try to do two things at once, your brain lacks the capacity to
perform both tasks successfully.
Those who multitask a lot
and feel that it boosts their performance—were actually worse at multitasking than those who like
to do a single thing at a time.
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Multi taskers
Are Distracted
Distraction
can also be dangerous. David Strayer, a professor of psychology at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City and an expert on driver distraction, has
found that a motorist talking on a cell phone is every bit as impaired as
someone who’s legally drunk. And there are health costs: Stress, including the
self-imposed kind, means more cortisol into the bloodstream. Chronically
elevated levels of cortisol can damage the heart, cause high blood pressure, suppress the immune
system, and make you susceptible to type 2 diabetes.
