This is your brain on multitasking

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A life-threatening error caused by tech-enabled multitasking calls Harvard doctors recommend to get rid addiction, and learn to focus.

Multi-tasking, You have probably already warned, your productivity is threatened. Be but grateful that as an entrepreneur it not actually is life-threatening someone, as in an accident in an article about the dangers of quick, detailed switch your focus from the editor of Harvard health. The song tells of a case of a man to the hospital for a small procedure approved:

One of the doctors of man increased the dose of the blood thinner warfarin, which the man took the. Prevents form warfarin blood clots in the bloodstream. The next day, the doctor decided to assess whether the man needed at all, warfarin, and a resident (junior doctor asked), temporarily stop the order for the daily warfarin.

With their mobile phone, the residents began to make the change via a computerized order entry system. Part of the route received through, she have a text message from a friend of a party. You responded to the text, but forget have, go back and close the medication order cancel warfarin. The man was always as a result, a high dose of warfarin. His blood was as "thin" that two days later, blood spontaneously filled the SAC around his heart, so that it properly could not squeeze pumps. He needed an operation to drain the blood and to save his life.

As probably not qualified to prescribe prescription drugs could be questions what has to do this story with you. But as the owner of a company, perhaps it is a good shock therapy against the constant, tech-enabled temptation to multitask to hear that so much she hired the negative effects of the practice professionals critical errors even threatened that can create mind sharpening of death. How to make anyone's life at stake, you, how much you are mucking because you around with too many devices play.

Fortunately Harvard not just because shock to change your ways, doctors offer an alternative way to work, to helping, to kick the habit of multitasking. The article author spoke with Dr. Paul Hammerness and Margaret Moore, authors who organize your mind, organize your life, for suggestions and they had this tip:

Instead of trying several things at the same time to do - and often none of them well - Hammerness and Moore set shift call they propose. This means aware and fully shifting your attention from a task to the next, and the concentration on the task at hand. Give your full attention to, what you will help you do it better, with more creativity and less errors or missed connections. Shift is a sign of brain fitness and agility, say the authors.

If on exactly how curious they maintain this set moved you, and learn more about exactly what's in your brain, if you multi-tasking (warning: it is not good), you check out a post by Moore at world of psychology, run to determine the steps to tame your impulses to multitask.