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Kirsten
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Are you a multi-tasker?
February 19, 2008 - 10:04 AM
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Do you multitask? If so, give a specific example. In your multitasking, do you attend to all items equally? How do you divide your attention?
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
February 20, 2008 - 12:32 PM
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Multitasking isn't even a word to me anymore. Instead, it has become a way of life.
Due to continuous focus on school work, personal life, family life and work, multitasking has brought my thought proccess to a whole new level. I no longer walk around thinking one thought at a time, but rather allow my mind to run on what feels like three different levels of thought. To put it simply, I can mentally outline my english essay, review for music theory all while helping a customer at work. That is possibly one of my greatest multitasking accomplishments. Things along those lines have become daily life and, in the overall, are screwing me mentally and have resulted in mass amounts of stress which create stress knots in my neck and back which, in turn, result in less time to work and therefore more multitasking.
Vicious cycle, no?
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
February 20, 2008 - 02:53 PM
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I think multi-tasking has been upgraded to work-aholic for me. If there's a time that I am not doing something constructive I actually get irritated. I compulsively love having lots to do, I even make up mental to-do lists and schedules for my relaxing me days. I multi-task anywhere from listing to recorded class lectures while at work to doing o-chem homework while searching and listening to you tube videos related to poverty to post on the UCP-SARnet website. Unfortuneately, I often forget to do the important things like eat and sleep and my apartment is an organized mess for which my husband has been delegated the cleaning duties for. 
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
February 23, 2008 - 10:34 AM
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poeticburst wrote:
Multitasking isn't even a word to me anymore. Instead, it has become a way of life.
I agree pretty much completely with this part of the post. I luckily don't suffer from the stress yet because I force myself to take at least a few hours a day for myself where I do NOTHING constructive.
But even in my personal life I constantly multitask. As an example, currently I have 4 tabs open in my Firefox browser, three MSN Messenger windows, and I'm reviewing a student union report that someone else wrote due to my absence from the last meeting. Sometimes I need to take a short pause from the other things to focus on one specific action, but usually I pay attention to them all equally.
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Tosin O.
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
March 31, 2008 - 12:06 PM
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
Yes, I am
I actually get bored when i don't have multiple tasks at hand. I actually prefer doing more than one thing at a time and i try as much as possible to give in my best to all. It's a part of me and i do enjoy it while it last. (i.e. till sleep comes) For example, as i'm replying to this post, I'm listening to music, installing some softwares on another system, coding, and smiling! It's fun.
Is it true that multi-talented individuals are multi-taskers? Maybe. . . *
This post was edited on: 2008-04-07 at 06:00 AM by: Olowotee
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
April 13, 2008 - 10:57 PM
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Definetely, I am one of those crazy people who do more than one things at a time.
I havent been doing it so much these days I think, or perhaps I have gotten so use to it that I dont even realise anymore.
I am not sure how I divide the attention given to each. But they all get done. I would be studying and chatting online attentively, and editing a document at the same time and talking to some friends in person.
But i love doing it. I get bored easily, so I have to do it. And my attention span is pretty short so I must do it to keep being occupied.
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
April 14, 2008 - 01:53 AM
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sure thing i really had not thought about it that way because this has become part of my life.And this to me has become normal.
this has not even caused stress to me how i mange im still to figure it out but i have been doing well
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
May 16, 2008 - 07:07 PM
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Are you a multi-tasker?
Yeah. I am a multi tasker, and i think litterally every body is multi-tasker. In todays speedy world, where communications are faster than ever, and where we are continuosly running a race against the watch, i would be surprised to meet a "uni tasker".
We are no more able to focus our mind on just one thing. We are living in two differents world: The outer world in wich we find ourselves doing just one thing, and then the inner world, the realm of imaginations, thougth, planning... This second world reveals the unlimited dimension and ability of man. And all human beings on this era are lead and driven by the course of time and the speedy move of things to such an extent that they would not accomodate if it wasn't possible for them to get inh the realm of they inner world
Multi-tasking has become not just a way of living, but a second nature to man.
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
June 6, 2008 - 11:54 AM
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poeticburst wrote:
Multitasking isn't even a word to me anymore. Instead, it has become a way of life.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I am a college student and a freelance worker, so I have a very unusual schedule. I don't follow 9-5 days, nor do I work in one place. Since I'm a freelancer, I don't get one task, complete it, and then get another on. I have multiple projects available to work on, and I choose when to do my work. Since I constantly have more than one project going on, I tend to do more than one thing at once. Right now I have my work e-mail open, TIG, meebo, and two seconds ago I was on the phone, and while listening, I was talking face to face to someone else, and it was just fine. I do that sort of thign all the time.
I LOVE being busy and being almost forced to multitask to get things done because whenever I have too much free time, I become lazy. When I am full of tasks to accomplish, and not enough time for it, I multitask and organize myself much better than if I have all that time to procrastinate. Oddly enough, that means I focus more on everything I am doing (even if I have a million different windows open, 3 phones ringing and a guest over) and get things done better and more efficiently.
There are only three occasions where that wont work though: When I have been up for over 48 hours, when I am sick, and when I don't have internet access. I admit it... i'm nothing if I can't be virtual. The internet is an AMAZING tool for me and my multitasking wouldn't work without it.
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Walter Stanish
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
December 1, 2008 - 08:15 PM
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Wow you people are sick!
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Re: Are you a multi-tasker?
December 6, 2009 - 10:27 AM
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I couldn't imagine what it would be like not having several things on the go. Life would seem so... relaxed that I would swarm myself with things to do.
Multi tasking really has become a way of life for myself like many others. As a single mom who works from home full time I am always doing several things at a time. Making dinner while finishing up a few things online is a daily event. Bathing the kids while sending off emails is normal. Doing a phone conference while changing laundry loads and de-sticking little hands is just life.
There is no such thing as not multitasking during my days and if there is... I find myself bored!
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