Think You Are a Great Multi-Tasker?

Being an effective communicator, requires that the Coach pay 100% attention to the speaker. The brain does not have the capacity to multi task. At best it can be described as continuous partial attention.

The following quotes and websites provide additional evidence of this.....

"To do two things at once - is to do neither," Roman philosopher Publilius Syrus wrote in 100 A.D., and modern science may just be proving him right.

Turns out that our capacity to multitask is far more limited than most of us think, and that in some situations, this misunderstanding can be downright dangerous.

In some recent work you can visit the control tower of a busy airport and talk to air traffic controllers who say that they’re not really multitasking at all, and talk to orchestral conductors about the challenge of directing the polymetric compositions of Charles Ives.

Taken from website:
http://lcmedia.stores.yahoo.net/multitasking.html

A couple of additional websites worthy of investigating this notion are:

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6453
http://www.apa.org/releases/multitasking.html
http://www.umich.edu/~bcalab/multitasking.html

Thank you to John Dyer, Canadian Consultant and Karl Forest, Monterey County Office of Education, for sharing this information.

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By Kathy Kee, Board Member

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