I think I’ve talked before about multi-tasking, but can’t find the exact post anywhere. Either way, let me clarify right now that I’m really not the type of person to believe in anything — like, anything at all (restrictive diets, organized religion, true love, whatever), but when it comes to astrology, I am SO a Taurus, and my rising sign is SO Gemini. I realize I sound ridiculous saying this, but truly, I find comfort (Taurus) in gathering information (Gemini) — more and more and more of it, all at once.
Hence, multi-tasking. I check e-mail a million times a day, check facebook at least five times a day, check numerous blogs at least once a day, then on top of that I’ll have a few Skype conversations, a G-chat or two, some articles to research, new house stuff to organize, meals to make, then eat, trips to plan, and all of this tends to happen at once.
This is BAD, though!
It’s been proven in many and many a study that the more you try to focus on at once, the less productive you are. And because so much of what I do revolves around my computer, it means I usually have at least five or six applications running at any given time.
But as my tech-savvy friend pointed out recently, this also has an environmental impact. The more programs I’m trying to run at once, the more energy that’s required. If I just use Firefox, then quit that and just use Word, then quit that and just use Skype, it’s more efficient, and efficiency = green.
No, you’re right, this isn’t a massive change, but it’s one that I hope will keep me a little more focused and keep my MacBook a little less stressed.
MacBook image from o’er here
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