Can you multi task?

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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I'm finding that in my old age I'm having difficulty multi tasking. Today I put a cake in the oven to bake. I decide to take a few items down to our basement, immediately I forgot about the cake. My hubby smelled it and called down to me. Luckily the cake was fine.
I can still multi task while I'm cooking. Peel onions while potatoes cook,things like that. Once I leave the room I can be totally distracted almost instantly.
I have a timer that I sometimes carry with me and that helps.

Do you have a problem multi tasking?
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Yes, sometimes, but that's why I love our Amazon Echo, AKA Alexa. We use it as a timer, as an alarm, as a reminder, and as a shopping list. Plus I think I've always been a bit distractable -- we just worry about it more in our old age. I do try to remind myself to focus on the task at hand, and save whatever is distracting me for later.
 
Multi-tasking may have been at a premium at one time in the workplace but I have heard it said and I think I believed it.
one can't do his or her best work while multitasking. To be really good, one must tackle a task solo. Maybe because I could never do too many things at once. And too, everyone was always better than I.
 
If "multitasking" means doing two different tasks at the same time, I'm sorry. I just don't buy into the "multitasking" nonsense. We are good at handling a task, and then rapidly switching to an other. We suck at doing two tasks at the same time. Yes, we can drive and also chat. But that's not "multitasking". That's putting 'driving' on auto-pilot, while we concentrate on chatting. I think the concept of "multitasking" is internet tripe for a non-existent ability.
Bah humbug, I'm off to kick a puppy.
 
When I was younger, I could do several things at the same time. Not any more.
When I started forgetting about clothes in the dryer & forgetting where I left something, I took the hint.
I never leave the kitchen without turning off the stove - even for a minute & that includes a bathroom visit.
We have to remember that our minds are aging along with the rest of us & being forgetful has nothing to do with intelligence.
Refusing to acknowledge that can be tragic - & is a major cause of house fires.
 
I used to be very efficient during my working days but now I have started to become absent-minded.

When I put the kettle on the stove or I'm cooking something I have to stay with it or set the timer alarm on the microwave to alert me.

I also have to jot things down on a running list for shopping and errands when I think of them because things fly in and out of my mind so quickly.

It is a difficult thing for me because the more absent-minded I become the more obsessive-compulsive I become about checking on things.

I'll be fine as long as I don't lose my sense of humor.

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CarolfromTX said:
Yes, sometimes, but that's why I love our Amazon Echo, AKA Alexa. We use it as a timer, as an alarm, as a reminder, and as a shopping list. Plus I think I've always been a bit distractable -- we just worry about it more in our old age. I do try to remind myself to focus on the task at hand, and save whatever is distracting me for later.
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Think I'm gonna need one real soon Carol! I too considered myself a great multi-tasker until maybe six years ago....gave it up to avoid frustration....and when I set the stove timer for anything, I sometimes don't remember what its set for :oops: .... don't get me started on the poor memory issue o_O
 
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PopsnTuff said:
Think I'm gonna need one real soon Carol! I too considered myself a great multi-tasker until maybe six years ago....gave it up to avoid frustration....and when I set the stove timer for anything, I sometimes don't remember what its set for :oops: .... don't get me started on the poor memory issue o_O
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You can set multiple timers on Alexa and name them. "Alexa, set rice timer for 9 minutes." "Alexa, set 50 minute chicken timer." Sooo handy. I have a reminder set for Monday to pay the dog sitter, because that's something so easy to forget, and it's totally not fair for the sitter if I do. We have a reminder to take our pills, morning and evening. We use Alexa a lot!
 
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