According to a Stanford University study, if you’re among the many multi-tasking individuals regularly juggling numerous sources of information simultaneously, you may be doing more harm than good.

“People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found,” wrote Adam Gorlick of the Stanford Report.

The study tested multi-taskers’ abilities to filter out relevant information while being shown a variety of information. Low multi-taskers did better at all tests administered, whereas high multi-taskers were easy distracted.

“The researchers are still studying whether chronic media multitaskers are born with an inability to concentrate or are damaging their cognitive control by willingly taking in so much at once. But they’re convinced the minds of multitaskers are not working as well as they could.”

Bottom line: by doing less, you might accomplish more.

Might want to take that skill off of your resume…

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