Showing posts with label Multitasking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Multitasking. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Being Aware

Well at first I thought the chart of your self study was just a dumb thing to assign but after analyzing it, During my study for time management I realized that I handle my time as efficiently as I can, That's what I believe. What I can do to better is getting more hours of sleep. I never noticed how many times I been depriving myself of sleep. It's kind of scary, how much energy I have from only about 5 hours of sleep. To get in better sleeping habits will probably be better for me so I can be wide awake each class, ready to participate and everything! I believe in total I spend about 10 hours on homework for the whole week, minus all the hours procrastination kicks on. It doesn't really take me a long time to get homework done because if it's easy enough then I'll just breeze through it. One thing I procrastinate on the most, is my math homework. I hate math and it's just so pointless because the credit for this course doesn't even count as an actual math course, just an extracurricular. Also I procrastinate on math because I feel the teacher is pretty lenient, and he already doesn't check or collect it. I still do math homework because I like to know how I came up with certain answers, everyone else has their calculators and such But I'd rather write out the problem and try to solve it.. On the tests we can't even use calculators! So it's better to learn how to do it rather than be dependent on a calculator to do all of the work. I also procrastinate on blogging because I feel as if this is rather easy task, and won't be very time consuming and It's kind of fun.

Monday, September 10, 2012

The door of the unknown.



Now I don't know about you, but for me there is always topics I haven't really cared to learn about or put so much thought into them to learn more about 'em.This topic is about multitasking, the article that intrigued me is here: http://lifehacker.com/5041144/debunking-the-myth-of-multitasking (If you're lazy and don't feel like clicking on the link, don't worry I'm about to summarize it anyways.) This article talks about how multitasking reduces productivity. Now there's two different types of multitasking, (I know,I didn't know that either.) Background multitasking, and Switch
tasking. "Now what's the difference?" you may be asking yourself, an example of background multitasking is when your exercising you watch tv, and an example of switch tasking is having two assignments due tomorrow, and you switch back and forth between both tabs of your browser trying to get information for both while typing them. Well I mostly just use background multitasking because I can't really switch task, I tried watching two different anime at the same time, not side by side but like after one episode of anime 1 i'd watch the next episode of anime 2. After a while I started to get the plots to each separate anime mixed up so I just focused on finishing all the episodes of anime 1. Here's what I think: Just don't do it, I know its easier said than done, but try harder and you're not really finishing the activity any faster than you would have if your full attention was on it. If I would have never had to read this article for my class, this topic would have never came out from behind the door of unknown,I wouldn't have even knew about all of this. I wonder what other topics are back there also.