They call it "multi-tasking". I call it annoying. When I read about the merits of efficiency and the need to get more things done at once, it is always written from the perspective of the person doing multiple things at the same time. I have never seen this modern habit described from the point of view of the person interacting with a multi-tasker.
When I walk into a colleague’s office and he is talking to me while simultaneously reading and responding to emails while his eyes dart to his iPhone’s text message alerts . . . I am not impressed with the ability to do several things at once. Honestly, I get frustrated because I do not believe he is listening to me. Over time this pattern has grated on me to the point I try to schedule our meetings in a conference room in an effort to disconnect his work station from our conversation.
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Good things occur when I give God all 5 of my senses.
-- John Richmond
How did we get from the former thoughts to the latter? ...Continue Reading
