Check e-mail messages once an hour, at most. Listening to soothing background music while studying may improve concentration. But other distractions — most songs with lyrics, instant messaging, television shows — hamper performance. Driving while talking on a cellphone, even with a hands-free headset, is a bad idea.
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Actually i did some research on this last semester and some trial research shows that distractions and multi-tasking can improve the overwall performance and lower completion time.
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As mother Coincidence would have it, we found ourselves discussing this a couple of days ago, and the consensus is pretty split. I'm not contributing any data to the discussion, but I think that in the long run, multitasking impedes your cerebral ability to go in depth of things. There's a difference between the guy who's writing an essay while listening to Mylo's sunworshipper, and the guy who's writing an essay on the Aeneid while talking on MSN, Gchat and AIM, writing an email, watching a video of Paris Hilton snorting cocaine off some jock's chest and all this while listening to Motorhead's greatest hits (some call this a typical Saturday night). Sorry for the brutally exaggerated comparison, it's just to say that there's multitasking and MULTI!!-tasking, and the latter can bring severe consequences. It's all about managing technology, and that is something that most people have trouble with. I see more people consult their myspace messages than discussing themes that involve long-term concentration. We need to manage technology I tell you...Technomanage.
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