Your computer screen shows you have eight different websites open, along (0) with two email accounts, three documents, a spreadsheet and one social networking site.
You seem to be working on at (33)
five different things and just as you get into one of them, you get an email. And you move onto that one instead.
And it’s not just at work where the trend for multi-tasking is increasing. (34)
average, people do this for two hours each day.
Doing two things at (35)
makes us feel as though we’re somehow saving time.
Yet there’s still a nagging feeling that finishing one job before starting (36)
might be more efficient.
We are led to believe that trying to juggle too much at the same time means we don’t pay enough (37)
to each task.
Multi-tasking is hardest when the tasks are similar (38)
each other, but a bit easier if they are different.
Chatting on the phone and writing an email is difficult because they both involve similar thinking processes in (39)
to generate meaningful sentences. Talking while playing the piano isn’t as hard.
The intriguing thing about multi-tasking is that although it can increase our cognitive load, many of (40)
still can’t resist working in this way. So multi-tasking may have its downsides, but it isn’t always bad.
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