First and foremost, as suggested by Prof Glenn Wilson from MIT, we are not the expert jugglers, we are the amateur plate spinner instead. Switching frantically between tasks will cause a log-jam in our brains; this is because both parts are rushing to reach the same place to process on the information. Taking the example likes this, we are learning online from Answers.com, the same time we are also texting message to our close friend. Information could only be stored into our brain through the striatum to hippocampus if the learning process is uninterrupted, if not it would only be stored temporarily at striatum. In addition, Prof Clint Edward from UCLA has confirmed that only one to two activities are presented in the prefrontal cortex when the visual stimulants are given.
Apart from that, we could have the chance to witness on the epidemic rage caused by multitasking. Let say I am living in the hectic cosmopolitan city, with heavy workload, besides that I am also a busy parents, busying take care of my cranky children, when my multitasking doesn’t live up its reputation, to have the fast efficiency of works in short period. I am starting to feel the anxiety, pressure and overload, and all of the noisy sounds are cracking into my minds. All that troublesome which I felt will be translated into the sort hormone stress cortisol, which spike high in my bloodstream. Chances are good I could be developed with cardiovascular disease because of “gift” from multitasking. In longer term it is not only the psychological spreading the harmfulness in our minds but also taking an intellectual toll as a whole in the process.
Despite of that, our future children who are intensively immerse in technology could have the higher chance in developing autism-like behavioral. Prof Earl Miller, a neuroscientist from University of Melbourne has pin-pointed our brains are not built for the onslaught, it only allows one to two activities to be processing at once, exceeding that limit would only bring the overload to the brain capacity and eventually coming the halt in the end. It is for this reason; our children are shaped with the autism behavior because of the “Attention Deficit Trait” as emphasized by Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist from Chicago University. He said ADT has the linkage to the autism form behavior in children. When children involve in autism, they are starting to isolate themselves with others, misinterpret on the non-verbal cue and worst leaving in their own fancy world, repeating the same phrases over and over again. In scientific term this scenario is called as echolalia.
In this context, the mounting evidence is suggesting that multitasking would not bring the effectiveness in our work, but in turn would be stirring with turmoil in our peaceful mind to be chaos. It is therefore we should abandon to the notion of work-like multitasking person, which is always the gauge and caliber from gigantic corporation in promoting their personnel. If by anyhow, we must do it, we must heed on the following advices, do not do in afternoon, the post-lunch fatigue added to the strain of multitasking would give you the immediate of overloading to the brain, in fact, the MRI personnel is scanning on which time it is best to perform on the multitasking. When we hit on the “Fried” point, do give ourselves a soothing view of nature, to release on the tension of our minds, and allowing our minds to discard the extraneous thoughts and filled with replenish feeling. As human it is not worthwhile to trade-off our health with multitasking just to storm through the tough time in overcoming the inflation rate in the next few decades. We could have many ways to earn the fortune without neglecting to our health and we should be reminded, the ever biggest fortune we could have in possession is all about the healthy body and mind.
