15 Oct 2018, 3:41 pm
15 Oct 2018, 4:15 pm
y-pod wrote:
Multi-task is not too bad if I only need to pay attention to one thing, and the other stuff require little attention. Like I can steam something, boil something, bake something and fry something at the same time. Among these the frying would require most of my attention. Sometimes I can manage 6 or 7 things at once, but if someone comes to me and start a conversation, I lose track and would forget what I'm supposed to do.
Ok, this is how I am. I like to cook so I can have different things cooking simultaneously for different amounts of time and requiring differing levels of attention. I often have to talk myself through it, like if I'm making a dinner for 5-10 people at home, singlehandedly cooking Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. BUT...........................with that, when I'm "in the zone", if one of my family members asks me something or wants to converse with me while I'm focused on cooking, I simply can NOT converse with them. Doing so would require me to completely forget about and lose track of the cooking processes at hand, completely shift gears into listening, analyzing, contemplating, ruminating, decision making mode. I can not do both.
When cooking a meal with multiple things going at the same time, I will talk through it out loud, point and gesture to this or that and keep a near constant audible narration for myself of what needs to be done when, etc. It's the only way I can accomplish such tasks. Thankfully I'm a very good cook otherwise my family would probably forbid me from being in the kitchen.
OrdinaryCitizen
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16 Oct 2018, 10:38 am
SplendidSnail wrote:
OrdinaryCitizen wrote:
I were sleepy and i think test does not show nothing except how fast you can click and how many tiny variables you can hold in your memory, how it measures multitasking?
I think it's the fact that you're having to do both at once - hold things in short term memory and concentrate on clicking. In my case, I was constantly repeating the letters in my head throughout the task, especially when there were lots of them.
I do notice that, although you went faster when you had to remember symbols, you also made mistakes and forgot the symbols. I'm curious to know whether you could still go faster if you made remembering the symbols your number one priority, and considered yourself to have failed the test if you made even one mistake.
Well i did not hold much just snapshot of one symbol they required to find, then i quickly look upper right corner not there then go trough menu, i mean sometimes its faster to use menu than read all letters in upper right corner.
I did not go faster because i started to remember something i just got more accustomed to the test and understood its mechanics like location of symbols and how shortcuts work etc before i was still not sure how it works so i was learning as i go.
I got bad memory, and i got distracted by talking to myself this is why i forgot that word i had to type at the end, other words were easier because they were more meaningful than just random letters..
Magna wrote:
Ok, this is how I am. I like to cook so I can have different things cooking simultaneously for different amounts of time and requiring differing levels of attention. I often have to talk myself through it, like if I'm making a dinner for 5-10 people at home, singlehandedly cooking Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. BUT...........................with that, when I'm "in the zone", if one of my family members asks me something or wants to converse with me while I'm focused on cooking, I simply can NOT converse with them. Doing so would require me to completely forget about and lose track of the cooking processes at hand, completely shift gears into listening, analyzing, contemplating, ruminating, decision making mode. I can not do both.
When cooking a meal with multiple things going at the same time, I will talk through it out loud, point and gesture to this or that and keep a near constant audible narration for myself of what needs to be done when, etc. It's the only way I can accomplish such tasks. Thankfully I'm a very good cook otherwise my family would probably forbid me from being in the kitchen.
What were you cooking was it a new recipe? i have no trouble doing mechanical work like cutting and steering or turning stuff that roasts and talking because this tasks i done million times before, its not like you have to think about riding the bicycle you learn once and never think about it afterwards.
16 Oct 2018, 1:35 pm
OrdinaryCitizen wrote:
Magna wrote:
Ok, this is how I am. I like to cook so I can have different things cooking simultaneously for different amounts of time and requiring differing levels of attention. I often have to talk myself through it, like if I'm making a dinner for 5-10 people at home, singlehandedly cooking Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. BUT...........................with that, when I'm "in the zone", if one of my family members asks me something or wants to converse with me while I'm focused on cooking, I simply can NOT converse with them. Doing so would require me to completely forget about and lose track of the cooking processes at hand, completely shift gears into listening, analyzing, contemplating, ruminating, decision making mode. I can not do both.
When cooking a meal with multiple things going at the same time, I will talk through it out loud, point and gesture to this or that and keep a near constant audible narration for myself of what needs to be done when, etc. It's the only way I can accomplish such tasks. Thankfully I'm a very good cook otherwise my family would probably forbid me from being in the kitchen.
What were you cooking was it a new recipe? i have no trouble doing mechanical work like cutting and steering or turning stuff that roasts and talking because this tasks i done million times before, its not like you have to think about riding the bicycle you learn once and never think about it afterwards.
It depends on the complexity of the cooking process. If I was cooking one thing, using only one burner and continual monitoring wasn't required, then I can converse. However, if I'm cooking a meal consisting of a main dish and side dishes and I'm using multiple burners and the oven to do so, I can not converse meaningfully with others. Cooking that way, which I enjoy, is still very much a juggling act for me. I have to monitor many things at the same time with different requirements and different cooking times.
