How many jobs can you focus at the same time? Two, three, five, seven? You think you're so talented that you can do a lot of work, don't you? But the real talent is to reduse this number to one.
Are you doing something else at the same time as watching me? If Your answer is "yes" will play a game with you. If you manage to watch this video with all your concentration for 5 minutes without dealing with anything else, so if you do just one job during this time, I promise you the foundation of all abilities ever. I don't care for anything else for 5 minutes. be careful I will be watching you during this period of time,
I'm looking right at your brain at the moment. It looks very busy. At the same time 40 foxes are walking, none of the tail is not touching each other. (Turkish idiom to express having too many things to think about and to do ) Do you know what that means in the computer world? "Multitasking" do multiple things at the same time. Computers do this very well. Even the tiny computers in our pocket - like the mobile phones - the Swiss army knife - forces you to be like a computer.
You don't say "I do a lot of things at the same time." Because your brain is not a computer. It is also an illusion for people to "multitasking ability" to claim that they can do more than one thing at the same time. This is not me, says Professor Miller Miller, who works in the field of neuroscience at MIT. "When people try to do more than one thing at a time, they can't actually do it. Instead they start to move from one job to another. These quick passes also have a price." says professor.
So we look more like a juggler who turns more plates than a juggler who is trying to keep the balls in the air. We're running like crazy from one job to another. Since there is not a single plate in front of us, our concentration is constantly deteriorating. I'll just sit down and work a little. Hold on, let's get a new email. No, there is a new chapter of "Game of Thrones" let me watch it. Let me take a picture of this moment for Instagram. Message from WhatsApp! I haven't used snapchat for a few minutes, how can I get a snap? How many people liked the photo that I uploaded to Instagram? oh wait, I was sitting here to work but what was I working on?
Attempting to do multiple things at the same time may seem a simple problem. But a study conducted at the University of London has more than anything else, It could lower your IQ. According to this study, for example, a person who is texting with a mobile phone during a meeting can fall back to the IQ level of an 8-year-old child.
Dave Crenshaw, author of The Myth of Multitasking, sees this as a cost, the cost of "constantly changing focus." It cost us a lot. But we must accept our borders. There's 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.
Yeah, our brains are more busy than ever. We're constantly bombarded with information. And we have to do more than ever. But in an order. One by one. We need to concentrate to whatever we are working on. We have to get our brains out of this digital division. We need to know how to say "no" to some things. We should be able to "focus like lasers."
"A successful fighter is actually an average man." says Bruce Lee. . It only has the power to focus like a laser, "he adds. "Concentration is the basis of all superior abilities." If you manage to have the ability to concentrate, it will be much easier to acquire other abilities. Forget everything else while doing a job. As in the "single or double method" I mentioned earlier. FOCUS. Focus on doing it, doing it good. The result is not that important. To succeed or not. What others say. Put them aside and focus only on the "photo of your life" to be clear.