Have you noticed how everyone these days is obsessed with getting numerous things done at once? Well, we can’t really blame them. In today’s world where everyone’s running a race, multitasking has become THE THING.

Digging a little deeper into it, think of your daily routine. From the minute you open your eyes to that split second where you lose consciousness and fall asleep, you’re constantly juggling between a million tasks. You wake up to your alarm ringing to checking your email, browsing Facebook for something irrelevant to downing coffee while yelling at your dog for creating a mess to finally getting on the train. You’d think this is it and you can nap for 5 peaceful minutes but that very instant your phone rings and it starts all over again. And that’s your life every day. This myriad of activities crammed into your day is bound to drain you.

When we attempt to multitask, we don’t actually do more than one activity at once but just quickly switch between them. And that’s what’s exhausting. This constant switching uses oxygenated glucose, running down the same fuel that’s needed to focus on a task, leaving you more tired than usual. Psychologist Gloria Mark from the University of California, Irvine says we should give up on multitasking completely and set aside dedicated slots of time for each task. In other words, you’ve got 10 minutes for Twitter in the morning, and that’s your lot until tomorrow. But there’s some evidence that repeating a task again and again makes us better at doing it alongside other tasks.

A 2015 study by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia found that when people were trained to do specific things at the same time, their multitasking performance improved for those particular tasks. The catch is that scientists still aren’t sure whether that kind of focused training would help us get any better at multitasking outside the lab. 

So, what should you do? Give up on multitasking completely or hold on to it because it might just be useful? Well, we can’t answer that for you but we can certainly provide you with something that can help. While multitasking, your focus is what gets compromised and that’s where the DOT Headset comes in handy.

We’ll help you understand with a simple example:

Let’s say that you’re a student who lives independently at a dorm and to support your lifestyle you also do part time web designing. It’s the end of the month and you’re all over the place. You’ve used up your allowance for the month so you can’t afford to eat out, you have 3 assignments due in the next two days and you have to  finish designing a website for a client. You’ve been trying to multitask, switching from cooking yourself a bowl of Ramen to working on the website to writing your assignments but you’ve barely accomplished anything. So now what? Do you curl back into bed and give up on life? Hello darkness my old friend…

OR at this point you put on the DOT Headset and turn the app on. The headset will monitor your concentration levels while you’re doing each task and notify you the second your concentration drops or your mind derails. That way you can consciously bring your focus back to the task at hand. How cool is that? Moreover, the games on the DOT app will help increase your focus and concentration levels which will eventually improve your multitasking abilities.

We believe that in a world like ours, we can’t really ditch our habits of multitasking but we can most definitely make things easier for ourselves. Hence, the DOT Headset is the perfect fit. We suggest you order your pair and see it for yourself.

Who says multitasking has to be a bad thing?