Topic : Pursueing one goal vs Multitasker

Topic : Pursuing one goal vs Multitasking

When I take the Culture and Business Leadership Class , most of guest speakers said ' Just focus one thing and continue to try and make it successful', but in reality we have to multitask on everything like work, self management, and any other activities. Even there is no time to spare because there are a lot of things we have to do. Everyday we worry about how we can finish and prepare about all things. So I think there is a solution for our university life and our future and dream by extension, and I found that we can use a milestone of our life and I will introduce that.

There are few truthiness in these days. Truthiness is a quality characterizing a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or because it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. This is dictionary mean. It can be described by a false that people believe real fact. In our life, this truthiness controls our living and life patterns.

This man made a term 'Truthiness', he is a comedian and his name is Steve Colbert.

First truthiness is ‘everything is important.’ In many cases, people want to make good results in everything because it show his or her ability and they satisfy about the results. But it can make all works become ruin works.

 Second truthiness is ‘Multitasking is an ability’. Nowadays, multitasking is an essential factor for anyone. Everyone thinks a person who does well multitasking is able person. Even also, some people think a person who tries for just one thing is a single minded person and ignore him.

However, actually multitasking make our work time shorten. For concentrating on a work, we need a time to adapt on the work's content. So, as often as we multitask, the time to give us spend.

Last truthiness is ‘We can multitask on many work.’ This is the most important truthiness. However genius, we cannot success everything. Our brain divide our concentration on each work. So we can concentrate perfectly one thing when we multitask. According to a result of study, if we have a light phone call in driving, it is same with drunken driving. In this part, we can understand multitasking is a pie in the sky.



In this case, switching activities mean multitasking. As we can see in the chart, we can understand how no switching is shorter than switching between tasks.

This chart is a reaction time, a completion time, and a percentage of correct ancwers when subjects solve problems like alphabet matter.

The sky blue graph is datas of multitasking and gray graph is single-tasking. We can see single-tasking is more efficient than multitasking.

This experiment was researched by computer engineering department's professors in Korea University

So I want to say about ‘focusing one thing’. I think it really need in our world for us. Many successful people like Bill Gates, Gary Keller say 'For success, just focus on one thing. Gary Keller who introduce about campaign for making goal and focusing it write a book 'The one thing' about focusing one thing.

He said in the book, "If you want to get two rabbit, you will lost all of them." Even also, he is very successful businessman and his said has value to listen.


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Of course, there is a good point for multitasking like fast adapting to new environment. And we can overcome fears about unfamiliar and gain confidence that if you failed, you can start again. Also if we have ability, multitasking can shine. For example, multitasking make fast work processing and can finish many thing by one time. However, my opinion is still it is advisable to focus on just one thing.

By first reason, we can move in work immediately. If we have one purpose, we can do it immediately because we don’t need to think what we want to do and have to do. It make we save our time and make we can do more.

Second reason is we can do what we want. If you choose just one thing among our many works, of course we will choose what we want. It will make we can work in happier circumstance and improve efficiency.

Last reason, by finishing works one by one along our decisions, we can believe ourselves and our choice. Thereby, we can have confidence and will approach to new work by same mind and direction.

So if you want successful result, find your goal and focus on that. Sometimes it makes you work harder, but if you focus on one thing by all of your concentration, you can finish it faster than multitasking and get better result. As a result, you can do more work. It is better to focus on just one thing than to miss an opportunity wandering among many choices. Sometimes multitasking can ruin all things vaguely.

This movie is 'The slickers'. In the movie, the young man who is a perfect city man lost his way by his city life. So he decided to go outside and want to be a cowboy. In the process, he met the old cowboy and travel to find the lost cow. This movie clip is the way to go cow and the moment the two persons become friends.

If you don’t have enough ability, there is no need to multitask. Just focus on one thing. Then, you can earn a bigger and successful one.


Reference - The One Thing, Gary Keller


- JaeChoon Jo, HeuiSeok Lim Dept. of Computer Science Education, Korea University