7/2017
Multitasking has become the buzzword for exceptionally talented humans. (1) Especially women. No, I’m not trying to pick a fight, just stating the facts, mam.
But, consider this. We have one human and one task. If the human can concentrate adequately, the task gets 100% of the attention. In another scenario, the human has 3 tasks. Let’s do the math. (Ever notice that many of my reflections involve math. That’s because life is math.) So now, we have 3 tasks, each getting 33.3 percent of the human’s attention or some different proportion but none gets 100% if the others get any. Sound about right?
The later, multitasking, is called ADD or attention deficit disorder. Believe me, I know because I’ve had it all my life. Everybody that knows me knows that I have more unfinished projects than, well you fill in the rest. See, I couldn’t even finish the last sentence.
So by today’s standards, if you can’t multitask, then you are an idiot savant, right?
Yes, actually. Here we are using the term savant to mean a person who is highly knowledgeable about one (or a select few) subject(s). Think of Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, when the box of toothpicks is dropped or spilled and Hoffman counts them while Cruise berates him for being clumsy and not paying attention. So the idiot savant is able to perform a single task to a level no other person could in the face of chaos. How? By giving 100% of his/her attention to the task at hand.
Pay attention! What are you? An idiot or a multitasker?
Thoughts from your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking
Weary.