Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Multitasking is a way of life for most of us. We eat lunch while we work, take calls at the gym, reply to messages while logged on to Zoom. The tools of our lives, from car dashboard screens to buzzing phones, fracture our attention while promising that we can do it all, all the time. Except we can’t.⁠ ⁠ “You can’t multitask,” says Earl K. Miller, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Our brains are wired to do just one cognitively demanding thing at a time, he says. We tell ourselves we’re multitasking, when what we’re actually doing is task-switching, rapidly shifting from one thing to the next. ⁠ ⁠ As we toggle, our minds stumble as we try to recall where we were and what we were doing, he says. Juggling tasks makes us less creative and more prone to errors; the quality of our work suffers.⁠ ⁠ So many of us continue to equate hopscotching from thing to thing with productivity. Job listings seek multitaskers, as evidenced by 141,069 hits for the phrase “multitask” in a recent search of posts on Indeed.com. ⁠ ⁠ We need to get back to monotasking—doing one thing at a time. The first step is weaning ourselves from distraction, says David Strayer, a University of Utah professor who has done pioneering research on how brains handle tasks. ⁠ ⁠ There are exceptions, whom Dr. Strayer dubs “supertaskers.” In their day jobs, they’re often high-end chefs, fighter pilots or professional athletes. They’re able to absorb multiple streams of information simultaneously, and keep it all straight. ⁠ ⁠ He says about 2.5% of people are supertaskers, although he estimates nearly 20 times as many people think they are.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photo Illustration: Elena Scotti for @wsjphotos; iStock, PixelSquid」5月14日 23時01分