If life is full of work then living becomes dull and boring. Since work is unavoidable in life, people invent new strategies to overcome boring during work time in the workplace by listening to songs, taking short-breaks, and talking to their colleagues. These short breaks definitely have the potential to rejuvenate your senses and relax your mind. Taking short breaks in strategic way increases workplace productivity like never before. But, there are people who want to do multitasking like listening to songs, playing computer games, etc, while doing their main core job activity. For some people, this kind of multitasking definitely creates problem in completing their work within deadline.
The problem lies in the human mind. Human mind does serial processing, not parallel processing like today's computer chips. Multitasking is possible with parallel processing but not serial processing. The mind, using serial processing strategy, processes the things to be done one after another. Therefore, if you try to do a few new critical tasks at the same time, no matter how efficient you are, but your mind will definitely bound to fail you. On the other hand redundant tasks, where the mind is already habituated to accomplish the task in record time without asking for your alertness, encourages multitasking.
Therefore knowing this difference, always concentrate on the single task at hand, if it is new, critical, and needs your presence of mind. Don't try to do multitasking, if you are attempting new critical tasks. You can always listen to your favorite songs once your mind is habituated to the new task in hand.
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