I want to stop multitasking all the time. There’s nothing fundamentally
wrong with multitasking — it’s a survival skill, in fact, but I do it
constantly. I just can’t go to a movie and not work on a sock, for
instance. I’m always trying to do more than one thing at a time. As a
result, I think I miss things that I would have enjoyed more if I had
given them all of my attention instead of trying to do too much at once.
I did not write this, I should have though. Theresa, our Keyboard Biologist wrote this in a post on resolutions. I know, I’m on record saying I don’t make them. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I do , however, work on the WAY I live my life, all of the time. One of the things I find most problematic for me, is the way I am so scattered, ‘monkeymind’ all the time if you will. I blame it on my constant multitasking.. It is a habit, an obscession. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t do it. When was the last time I actually focused on one thing, only one thing, and did not stop it to do any other project. Even as I write this post, IM has just rung it’s little tone, letting me know someone has a question, a message.. I went to see it. Couldn’t stop myself. When was the last time you were having a conversation with someone, in person, mind you, and you didn’t break it off to answer the phone when it rang? You DID answer it, I know you did. I did too. I think women are most susceptible to this over multitasking phenomena.. we’re born to do it. It’s survival. But, we need to learn how to turn it off. OFF! Put it on hold. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that having more than one project in the bag is multitasking. Nor, am I thinking of actually turning off the TV while I knit. But, it is something to think about.
The hat.. It should be finished. It’s not. Do not make this hat according to the pattern if you have a head larger than a child’s. It will be a brain squeezer.. very warm and very tight. Don’t think about this, trust me. I’m continuing according to directions. I may wish….
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3 responses to “multitasking”
Brain squeezer, hee! That’s a well-loved term in my family for hats that turn out comically tight. I was so proud that one of the Christmas hats I knit this year was actually a little loose. That’s progress!
I love the Celtic Harbor Hat, and I’m awfully sorry to hear that it’s a brain-squeezer. 🙁 I should probably just leave that one alone.
Definitely food for thought. Thank you.
So true…the multitasking thing…..I’m so guilty of it. The problem is it is on the increase in my life principally because I want to do so many things in such a short space of time.
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