“Forget multitasking, Try monotasking” is a short TED talked by Paolo Cardini, who is a designer and an educator. Paolo explains the power of importance of monotasking in the world where multitasking appears to be the norm and suggests downgrading our smart phone to make them simply phones. In the video, he shows us a picture as an example of a bad result of multitasking while barbecuing; He did trying to cook, answering the phone, writing SMS, and uploading some pictures at the same time, and he burned everything. Additionally, he shows us some kinds of smart phone covers he designed in order to convey his idea of monotasking. He advocates doing only one thing at a time instead of focusing on several tasks simultaneously. This is because only two percent of people are super-taskers, and the others, most of us, will possibly make mistakes if they do not concentrate on one job. Therefore, Paolo wants us to find our monotask spot within the multitasking world. This is a useful talk, and I totally agree with him for some reasons. It is true that most people cannot deal with much information at one time and sometimes multitasking can cause dangerous situations due to our carelessness when we try to control a multitasking environment. There is a great example supporting this idea; driving and texting is illegal in many countries. Needless to say, texting while driving a vehicle, which is a common multitasking, is very dangerous because it causes over 3,000 deaths and 330,000 injuries per year according to the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study.
Even though multitasking has come to the forefront, I suggest people to turn the machines off for a time and have time to enjoy one