Good at multitasking

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I seem to get all my flappy bird high scores while watching youtube videos.

I play Fruit Ninja while reading.

I multitask so damn hard that I cant SINGLEtask. At all.

If I try to, I just get all spacey and even more absentminded than usual.

I prefer to do one thing at a time. I can't focus properly when I am trying to do too many things at once, although I do often have the TV on whilst I am stitching. I don't usually pay much attention to what is on the telly though.

Plus I become flustered, then I start getting upset and have a eppi because because I am trying to do too much and my brain can't organise itself. Then people think I am insane and give me funny looks because I am getting wound up.

I am a singletasker.

i need a minimum stimulance to do anything at all, i indeed cannot singletask.
just last week, i aced the national IQ quiz on tv while cleaning my phones memory and reading a book, even the long-term memory questions were no problem (actually, the mistakes i did make were when i was paying attention, strangely enough)

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I bet you could be a good drummer or organist then, those people have to multitask like something.

I'm a very poor multi tasker but there is one thing that I've noticed. I hate working in a quiet workshop so there's always some sort of noise in the background. Most of the time it's music but sometimes I'll fire up a receiver and just leave it tuned to one spot and see who turns up.

Is this multi tasking? Who knows?

This person is very much how I am; at best I can do two things at once but that's pushing my limit. If I truly multitask, the flustered thing described above happens bigtime and it's meltdown city for me.

Years ago a boss told me I was "very Zen" in focusing intently only on one thing at a time, and since I was working in a retail store as cashier/customer service, gift wrapper, stock person and floor assistant....she said I needed to multitask more...Not surprisingly, those jobs were not exactly the best fit for me.

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I'm not good at multitasking. Like, If I'm supposed to be listening to someone's directions WHILE I'm concentrating on tying my shoe, I will have no clue what they said to me. BUT I really like the tv on or music while I do something like homework or reading. I usually don't listen to the music or the tv while I'm doing the work, it's mostly just there to cut out background noise so I can zone in on whatever I'm doing. It's the same way when I sleep, I have an air filter running next to me so it cuts out background noise, I like the consistent noise of the filter compared to hearing random sudden noises in the night.

I'm listening to yesterday news about our snow forecast as I type this.

Me too. I'm always amazed at people's capacity to multi-task. Occasionally I can go on the Internet and play a game while the T.V is on but that usually becomes too much for me and I must choose one or the other. I can play a couple of songs on a repeating loop playlist while posting on this site or playing sudoku (that's my game right now). That's the extent of my multi-tasking. If I'm reading or writing I need to just focus on that, can't do anything else at the same time and for a long time I was reading 5 to 7 hours a day/night, every day/night. So, I'm not a bad reader with too little practice, I'm an avid reader and I love it (it's not really an obsessive interest any-more but I still love it) and yet it requires all of my attention for some reason. A lot of times I read whole books out-loud to myself to drown out the little noises around me and focus on the words or if I'm writing I sometimes say what I'm thinking/writing out loud. My mum can read and watch T.V at the same time which is amazing to me as is the apparent ability of some of my classmates to listen and take notes while playing a game on their computers or going on facebook. Sometimes I'll see/hear someone beside me close a chat window or facebook and write a note at exactly the right time, when the professor says something important or says "this will be on the exam". They're not drowning out the whole lecture, they're paying just enough attention so they can tune back in when they need to which seems like a super-human ability to me.

I would bet good money that your classmates who are effortlessly multitasking are also school athletes or musicians or are on the honor roll. it is a sign of superior intelligence to be able to do all those things. the people who naturally multitask have different [superior] brains, like Ferraris, while the rest of us make do with our yugos.

Yep, I believe you. Some of them I know to be really good students.

Edit: I just thought of this, my little sister has a genius IQ (yes she has a super high IQ and no disability, life isn't fair ) but she's not amazing at multi-tasking. She's not bad at multi-tasking and can read and watch TV at the same time but when she lived at home she usually read in her own quiet room and when she was studying she needed complete silence. I'll bet intelligence IS correlated with multi-tasking ability but I'm not sure to what extent.

it is just that all the smart people I've ever know were champion multitaskers and were generally good at everything.

I'm very jealous of people like that. Well, my sister did seem to be generally good at everything she tried like dance, costume making and sewing, drawing ect. She just picks skills up quickly and easily and I can't think of anything she's particularly bad at doing. She has personality flaws just like everyone else but I can't think of an actual skill she just found really difficult or impossible to acquire.