Travis Bradberry’s “Multitasking Damages Your Brain And Career, New Studies Suggest” offers a view on multitasking that claims to harm one’s brain and lower IQ levels. I personally have to disagree with such a strict and rigid conceptualization of multitasking. I believe multitasking can actually be a resourceful skill that many jobs – especially those that involve retail or sales – look for in their candidates. Though I agree with Bradberry’s suggestion that multitasking can “decrease the quality of your work,” I also think it is necessary in certain situations.
Being a parent, working in retail or sales will require heavy multitasking in order to get the job done, and that’s okay. Learning how to effectively multitask is the conversation one should have. Though it can be stressful to cook, do the dishes, and pack the back for the kids’ school at the same time or serve multiple customers simultaneously, it is useful not only for the person multitasking but also for the individual receiving a service. I suggest not to multitask whenever the activity in question requires analysis.Contrary to Bradberry’s strict position, Ann N. Amicucci’s “Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t” teaches us a controversial perspective on social media that is rather inviting instead of demonizing. Besides her four examples on what to learn from social media –knowing your audience, picking filters, saying more through symbols, and using references –and what not to learn – cutting the story short –I believe social media to have reached a new level. What I mean by that is that nowadays, social media is used as a learning tool, where many tiktoks and reels provide factual content about science, arts, history, and even writing! It is important to understand how to use that knowledge in our advantage, and one day it may be expected to use those as references for our college writing –depending on the ethos of the source, of course.
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