Why would you want to split your attention with TV while working?
Why would you want to split your attention with TV while working?
Multi-tasking?
No, I'm not good at it, and nor do I wish to be good at it; the choice is between doing one thing well, (sometimes very well) and several quite badly.
It is a myth to argue that one can devote attention (at least, it is a myth to suggest that one can devote equal attention) to several things simultaneously.
You can, - perhaps - but not if you wish to do them equally well.
I share your sentiment, though there are exceptions. You might know the Russian saying:
"Я не Юлий Цезарь".![]()
I can read a book, watch TV and eat at the same time. Substitute my laptop for online news articles if I'm not currently reading a book.Anyone else here bad a multitasking? Like working on the computer while watching a movie or tv show at the same time ?
I wish I was not. Anyway to improve it please?
I can eat and watch TV at the same time. But I can't read and watch TV/talk to people. My brain can only process one cognitive task at a time.Anyone else here bad a multitasking? Like working on the computer while watching a movie or tv show at the same time ?
I wish I was not. Anyway to improve it please?
Thanks everyone I thought I was the only one that could not do this.
I multitask at work. But not watching tv. Just doing three or four work things at once.Thanks everyone I thought I was the only one that could not do this.
I have a flannel-covered design wall next to where I sew, and dare not distract myself while taking components of quilt blocks off that to seam them up and then put back up there awaiting the next part of block assembly process. If I get distracted, that way lies the eventual discovery of a flipped set of half-square triangles, or some other thing turned 90º from how it was supposed to end up.
But when I'm just doing hand-sewing of bindings or hems etc. on nearly finished things, I'll sometimes stream a TV show re-run on a laptop and keep half an eye on it to reduce the tedium of thinking "only 10 yards to go..."
Even that I can mess up sometimes. I've been known to baste some little thing made of lightweight cottons to the leg of my jeans by not quite getting the needle all the way through the denim... bummer when I discover it and have to take it out w/ embroidery scissors or a seam ripper; I'm as likely to destroy my jeans as whatever I was sewing. On balance I do better paying full attention when I'm sewing or cooking, either one.