By doing less, you might accomplish more.

I’m always drawn to understanding the full picture of things. I want truth even if my poor brain can’t at first handle the truth.

So to my pleasant surprise some new research from Stanford Universtity has shed some light on an a hunch I’ve had for a while.

When people say that women were better multi-taskers than men it always ticked me off. From my observation, I would agree that women would be required to multi task more often than men (a product of gender strain and a by-product of the feminist moment if you ask me), but they more often than not struggled with effectiveness. So they could juggle more balls it seemed, but juggling many things at once doesn’t mean your a great juggler; it means you have heaps of things to potentially juggle. My opinion has been “how is it possible to do 6 things at once to the standard that someone can do 1 or two things to?” I don’t think you can and it seems that this hunch might be right. Check out the research findings here. However, regardless of the truth about whether woman can actually  multi-tasking better than men, it appears mutli-tasking is not the asset it has been made out to be – in fact it apears to be the opposite.

Side Note: Women  have to take on much more than men in our society (more often than not). I think society requires women to multi-task by how we define what the ideal life is for a woman. I also think the mentality of  ”Career, Motherhood, Relationship – I can have it all” has also had a huge bearing on the extend of what many women choose to juggle. Seems that this is not the path to greater wellbeing and happiness that many people thinks it is.

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