Скачать или смотреть The Cost of Task Switching

There's no such thing as "multi-tasking" for cognitive tasks. You can perform one non-cognitive task (eat while watching TV) and one cognitive tash (listening to the TV), but you can't do two cognitive tasks at once (e.g, listening to a TV show announcer while also reading the ticker tape news at the bottom of a sports or news channel). You're actually "task switching" vs. multi-tasking. And task switching adds non-productive "mental ramp-up time" to any cognitive process.

In this video, Karen shares an activity you can do and share with others that shows how doing fewer things at once creates valuable productive time by reducing task-switching time. This concept is central to successful prioritization and scheduling of projects, problems to be solved, and improvement activities. Enjoy!