Multitask
verb
To perform multiple tasks at the same time.
She can multitask by cooking and doing homework at the same time.
Often appears as...
- ability to multitask
- multitask effectively
noun
The action of managing more than one task at the same time.
Multitask is a vital skill in today's fast-paced world.
Often appears as...
- perform multitask
- multitask skill
verb
In computing, to run multiple processes concurrently.
The operating system is designed to multitask effectively.
Often appears as...
- multitask applications
- operating system multitask
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To perform multiple tasks at the same time.
She can multitask by cooking and doing homework at the same time.
Often appears as...
- ability to multitask
- multitask effectively
noun
The action of managing more than one task at the same time.
Multitask is a vital skill in today's fast-paced world.
Often appears as...
- perform multitask
- multitask skill
verb
In computing, to run multiple processes concurrently.
The operating system is designed to multitask effectively.
Often appears as...
- multitask applications
- operating system multitask
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Time Efficiency
Multitasking is valued for saving time by doing more than one thing simultaneously.
While I multitask during my commute, I catch up on emails and listen to podcasts.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Skill
Employers often seek employees who can multitask effectively in dynamic work environments.
The job requires someone who can multitask under tight deadlines.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overload
Taking on too many tasks can lead to stress and a drop in productivity and quality.
I realized I couldn't multitask without making mistakes, so I focused on one task at a time.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Efficiency
Multitasking is valued for saving time by doing more than one thing simultaneously.
While I multitask during my commute, I catch up on emails and listen to podcasts.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Skill
Employers often seek employees who can multitask effectively in dynamic work environments.
The job requires someone who can multitask under tight deadlines.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overload
Taking on too many tasks can lead to stress and a drop in productivity and quality.
I realized I couldn't multitask without making mistakes, so I focused on one task at a time.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Efficiency
Multitasking is valued for saving time by doing more than one thing simultaneously.
While I multitask during my commute, I catch up on emails and listen to podcasts.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Skill
Employers often seek employees who can multitask effectively in dynamic work environments.
The job requires someone who can multitask under tight deadlines.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overload
Taking on too many tasks can lead to stress and a drop in productivity and quality.
I realized I couldn't multitask without making mistakes, so I focused on one task at a time.
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How Quantum Biology...
This is the quantum skier. He seems to be intact, he seems to be perfectly healthy, and yet, he seems to have gone around both sides of that tree at the same time. Well, if you saw tracks like that you'd guess it was some sort of stunt, of course. But in the quantum world, this happens all the time. Particles can multitask, they can be in two places at once.
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Hrishikesh Hirway: What...
and ready to learn something new. Also, the instinct to multitask is so hard to turn off, but it's so important that you do it. You know, when you're listening to music these days, most of the time it's something that we do passively. It's in the background. It's the soundtrack to something else that we're doing.
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Inside your computer -...
instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click
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How does hibernation...
Others, like the female black bear, can multitask, giving birth and lactating while they’re hibernating through the winter. The fat-tailed dwarf lemur prepares for its long dormancy by gorging on food and storing the majority of its fat reserves in its tail, doubling its body weight.
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Paola Antonelli: Design...
If you think about your life today, you go every day through many different scales, many different changes of rhythm and pace. You work over different time zones, you talk to very different people, you multitask. We all know it, and we do it kind of automatically.
Video examples
The unforeseen...
jet-lagged. We didn't evolve to multitask. Rather, we evolved to do one thing with incredible focus, like hunt -- not necessarily with great speed but with endurance for great distance. But now there's a widening gap between our biology and our lifestyles,
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Jason Silva on...
world all these screens competing for your attention an infinite amount of signals competing for that cognitive limited resource of your attention attention is the new oil we live in the attention economy and the idea the equals somehow multitask you can
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4 reasons to learn a new...
just by virtue of the fact that it is their code. So that's one reason. Second it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, and that you are probably a better multitasker. And these are factors that set in early,
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Are food preservatives...
help cut produce keep its color by thwarting the enzyme that causes browning. Some compounds like sulfites can multitask. They're both antimicrobials and antioxidants. Sulfites may cause allergy symptoms in some people,
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The Strange and...
and carelessness in it now where we all try to multitask and when I think about snails I think about what's important and I think about slowing down and being
Video examples
How Quantum Biology...
This is the quantum skier. He seems to be intact, he seems to be perfectly healthy, and yet, he seems to have gone around both sides of that tree at the same time. Well, if you saw tracks like that you'd guess it was some sort of stunt, of course. But in the quantum world, this happens all the time. Particles can multitask, they can be in two places at once.
Video examples
Hrishikesh Hirway: What...
and ready to learn something new. Also, the instinct to multitask is so hard to turn off, but it's so important that you do it. You know, when you're listening to music these days, most of the time it's something that we do passively. It's in the background. It's the soundtrack to something else that we're doing.
Video examples
Inside your computer -...
instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click
Video examples
How does hibernation...
Others, like the female black bear, can multitask, giving birth and lactating while they’re hibernating through the winter. The fat-tailed dwarf lemur prepares for its long dormancy by gorging on food and storing the majority of its fat reserves in its tail, doubling its body weight.
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Design...
If you think about your life today, you go every day through many different scales, many different changes of rhythm and pace. You work over different time zones, you talk to very different people, you multitask. We all know it, and we do it kind of automatically.
Video examples
The unforeseen...
jet-lagged. We didn't evolve to multitask. Rather, we evolved to do one thing with incredible focus, like hunt -- not necessarily with great speed but with endurance for great distance. But now there's a widening gap between our biology and our lifestyles,
Video examples
Jason Silva on...
world all these screens competing for your attention an infinite amount of signals competing for that cognitive limited resource of your attention attention is the new oil we live in the attention economy and the idea the equals somehow multitask you can
Video examples
4 reasons to learn a new...
just by virtue of the fact that it is their code. So that's one reason. Second it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, and that you are probably a better multitasker. And these are factors that set in early,
Video examples
Are food preservatives...
help cut produce keep its color by thwarting the enzyme that causes browning. Some compounds like sulfites can multitask. They're both antimicrobials and antioxidants. Sulfites may cause allergy symptoms in some people,
Video examples
The Strange and...
and carelessness in it now where we all try to multitask and when I think about snails I think about what's important and I think about slowing down and being
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Mireille Guiliano
French Author
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!
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Charlie Munger
American Businessman
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
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James Gleick
American Author
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
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Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
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Diana Taylor
American Public Servant
For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
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Alan Cumming
Scottish Actor
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
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Marilyn vos Savant
American Writer
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
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Glenn Beck
American Journalist
I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
Quote examples
Mireille Guiliano
French Author
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!
Quote examples
Charlie Munger
American Businessman
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
Quote examples
James Gleick
American Author
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
Quote examples
Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
Quote examples
Diana Taylor
American Public Servant
For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.
Quote examples
Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
Quote examples
Alan Cumming
Scottish Actor
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
Quote examples
Marilyn vos Savant
American Writer
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
Quote examples
Glenn Beck
American Journalist
I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
Example 1 of 10
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