“Forgetting Multi-tasking, try mono-tasking”, is a very
relevant video to most, if not all of today’s society, especially for our
generation. Our generation consists of
college students and those younger then us and even many of our parents. In today’s society, many people feel as
though in order to get all that you had planned to complete done in one day,
multi-tasking must constantly occur. As
we all know, Paolo Cardini mentioned that we should try mono-tasking which is a
very good idea for today’s society. I
feel as though if we begin to mono-task, we really begin to appreciate what we
are currently doing and we begin to really focus on the task at and, having few
distractions. For example, when I go to
exercise in a gym, there are many people who will bring their iPods or watch
the television screens that are in front of them in order to pass the time, but
I personally like to just exercise with no iPod or television. There are many reasons for this, but I feel
as though there can be times when you are isolating yourself when you are
focused on your electronic device and can be missing much that goes on around
you. Also, if someone were trying to get
your attention, you will likely not be able to hear him or her because you will
have headphones in and will not be able to hear much of anything other then
your music. Along with exercising in the
gym, when you are exercising outside, I especially do not like to listen to my
iPod, because you are more focused on the music rather than the things around.
To me, mono-tasking while exercising is very enjoyable and relaxing because you
are just appreciating everything around you that God has created. There is so much of God’s beauty around you
that you can appreciate when you go outside and walk or run. Mono-tasking is a great way for you to be
able to focus on one thing at a time and to complete the task at hand 100%,
rather than spreading yourself too thin and only partially completing multiple
tasks. Mono-tasking is very difficult
for Americans to do and we honestly would probably not have nearly as many
devices that we currently have if it weren’t for multi-tasking, but
mono-tasking is an activity that everyone should try to do every once in a
while in order to appreciate and focus more on what they are doing.
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