Finally, someone says something again about the importance of focus:
...it appears that the ability to multitask is more of an illusion, than a bona fide skill. Have you ever wondered who might really be approaching work in the most effective manner? Well, it appears that "paying attention" is still required.
In reality, we should be on a mission to break our multitasking obsession. (I believe that many of us feel obligated to multitask.) While we have the ability to switch between tasks — we do not have the ability to attend to all of them effectively. Recent studies have documented that performance can drop significantly when attempting more than one task, and this becomes more of a challenge as we age.
Research at Stanford has shown that heavy multitaskers have trouble mastering even the simplest of tasks. (In fact, multitaskers didn't do much of anything well.) ...Continue Reading.
-- Dr. Marla Gottschalk
...I've wondered about the impact of focus (or, lack of it) in 'our times', particularly as it relates to habits developed through neural pathways. It's a challenge not to put a moral judgment on something like this, as us older folks are 'want to do'. But, either way, it seems we lose something important when we lose our ability to ability to focus...whether that be because of our age, our habits, or our times.
