[Thylacine]

I waste an enormous amount of time at work each day trying to multitask. Each time the phone rings or an email shows up wanting something, it takes me 20 minutes to get focused again on what I was doing before the interruption.

At home with the usual list of mundane chores, I can bounce back and forth between various things, but at my job I need to focus on problem solving which requires concentration.

[JasonK]

I find it impossible to concentrate with anything going on in the background. I can't even listen to music while I work, or my mind won't be able to focus on the task at hand. So no, multitasking is definitely not easy for me.

[pip]

Doing more than one thing at a time, I've found leads to "interesting" mistakes which often go un-noticed until much later when it causes a problem and has to be corrected, which then requires everything else to the checked.

Lesson learned: I don't do it anymore.

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[TheWanderer]

I'm good at most multitasking, though not reading when someone is talking to me (I don't even understand how thats supposed to work)

[Noelle]

Not only do I multi-task, I find it hard to focus on just one thing.

If I am forced just to focus on one thing, I have a tendency to fall asleep. =/ I found the trick to staying awake in class for me is to write note cards for either the same class or a different class while taking notes from the instructor in front of me.

[iBravo]

Not a multitasker. But I am good at focusing on one thing at a time, it seems better than trying to do many things at once.

[JGordon]

Hell, I have trouble even *single* tasking. If someone just paid me to sit around and do nothing all day, that's exactly what I'd do... and it sort of offends me when anyone expects more from me.

I suppose I do have my own projects going on that I'm dedicated to though, but that's secret stuff.

[Fox]

Multitasking is easy. What stops me are multiple outside audio distractions.

[snyd]

I multitask within the main task. I can be very efficient with many steps within the primary task at hand . Multitasking, causes me to do tasks like any other person, I prefer to be supreme, and ingenious, at what I do.

[YummyFriedOnion]

Some things, usually trivial, I multi-task well, not others that I need to focus serious attention on.

I can study with the tv on in the background as I filter out the noises, but not when real people are talking.

I find speaking constantly while driving difficult, but I think a lot of stuff (mostly work related).

I multi-task trivial stuff like web-surfing all the time, but hate doing it for project work. If I have 2 big projects, I prefer to do them sequentially.

I hate being peppered with tonnes of ASAP "quick win projects" that I know I'll never be able to do more than skim the surface of to meet the deadlines. I can however, get side-tracked into zooming into small parts of big tasks.

I hate interruptions while working, because I need lots of time to get back into the zone. Meetings, emails, calls, all kill my focus for 15-20 minutes after.

[Lolwut]

It's not hard, but not easy either. I prefer to do one activity at a time properly rather than multiple tasks with the risk of an error.

[Leesh]

Yup, its easy for me. I make more mistakes doing one thing at a time than several at once.

[Curious ENFP]

I can multi task but in the long run it is not more efficient. Basic cognitive psychology supports this. However, cognitive training can help to increase an individuals multi tasking ability while being able to task shift quickly and keep focus. Try
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great for increasing neuroplasticity.

[jetplane48]

I'm pretty horrible when it comes to multitasking.

[Dix]

Multitasking is just the thing I can`t do good. Honestly, I`ll do everything to avoid it.

Lesson learned a few years ago, when I was a call-center worker. Talk on the phone, search for information in the database, write the correct comment and don`t get lost when doing these things simultaneously. I`ve survived a whole five days of this hell-on-earth, after that time I quit.

[ccbeau]

Yes. I am a true multi-tasker at heart. I actually feel more comfortable if I am dividing my attention to work on more than one thing at a time.

[Berserker]

I think we believe that a great deal of things are easy to accomplish is because we don't think of ourselves as being talented in them. We consider our level of competency 'normal' and thus anything less is 'substandard'. It's all about perception.

[uzunu]

I cannot multitask. Ever. Even in my car, when I drive and talk to the person next to me, whenever I have to change direction, like in an intersection, I stop mid-phrase, even mid-word, take the turn, then resume like nothing happened. On the other hand, I'm juggling projects on a daily basis, never had a problem with that.

[katatonic]

I can only be productive if I'm doing a million things at once. If I only have one thing to do and am focused on that one thing, I will get bored and stop doing it. I need constant stimulation.

[Zsych]

Realistically, I have to need to multi-task effectively, to multi-task effectively. There has to be a deadline, some result that needs achieving.

[Dung]

I cannot even uni-task let alone multi-task.

[Magda]

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	Wait… Are you talking about Multitasking: Focusing on more then one thing at a time? Or Juggling Projects: Work on one project for a few hours then another for a few hours; with multiple projects. The first one I find difficult the second however I do regularly.

Ditto. I hate the former (end up doing at least one of the the 2 things I'm trying to do badly), but am good at the latter (have to be when you work in a research laboratory). I can do it in smaller bits (what useful thing can I work on in the 15 minutes my samples are incubating) if I set a timer so I remember to get back to the first task. Otherwise I'll get absorbed in what I'm doing and forget to switch back.

[John F Kennedy]

When I do one single thing my mind already does a kind of "multitasking", i.e. it puts into play different problems, viewpoints, and levels related to that one single thing. Doing another thing at the same time would destroy the ordered complexity of the multi-voiced fabric of my mind. I have my limits.

[Cerebrate]

I prefer to do one thing at a time. I tend to get side tracked when multi-tasking.

[charlie3mx]

I hate multitasking!