I caught site of a fellow traveller with his two hands clicking away on his Blackberry.
What was truly bizarre was the fact that he was using the urinal in the men’s room at the same time… “multi-tasking.”
Apart from the health and hygiene considerations
our PDA-wielding professional was doing what lots of us do — use new technology to ruin our productivity.
In the case of multi-tasking, it’s well known that higher productivity comes at the moments when professionals are able to accomplish that elusive state of complete focus
He also has found that it takes some 20 minutes to enter this focused mode, and another 20 or so minutes to re-enter it once it’s broken. The professional who checks email every 15 minutes throughout the day is never able to function at anything other than a low state. Neither is the guy who answers his cell phone whenever it rings, and continually checks it for text and voicemail messages.
clipped from: www.lifehack.org 