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Health & Fitness

Multitasking

Multitasking is a form of ADD (attention deficit disorder) It is an invitation to disaster and death as no one really performs all tasks equally well with no mistakes. Such as texting and driving to really perform routine and even complicated tasks such as driving or programing requires special concentration skills that fewer and fewer have due to how how the mind works and it's tendency to wonder, even computers make mistakes and require human intervention to find out what went wrong and why. So the next time you are asked by a potential employer can you multitask? Or hear someone repeated and proudly describe how efficient they are are at multitasking realize that this form of A.D.D. is causing more and more people to walk into fountains and poles because they were talking on a cell phone crossing the street and were hit by a car or mugged or kids kidnapped or lost all because of distractions. Most automobile accidents and plane crashes are caused because of human error due to distractions A.D.D. Multitasking is a myth invented so industry does not to have hire the necessary help to do the job correctly.

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