Undivided Attention is The Scarcest Resource

After 3.5 of college years, I've met a lot of people. From the busiest one until people who does nothing. The one the has nothing to do always trying to find things he wanted to do but, they failed to defeat their laziness. In the end, they always do something that has little meaning or something that give them happiness. In contrast, Busy people has tons of thing to do and mostly they did not focus at one thing.

Some days ago, I asked one of my friend to accompany me to an event of an organization. Both of us are loyalist of that organization. Unfortunately, she had another two events that would occur at the same time. and she had a hard time choosing the event that she want to attend. That day, I found that  she was the member of more than 3 organization. 

And I know there are a lot of people who are just like her. A lot of jobs with little time for each job. The truth is that I'm very sad for her not because she has little time for me, but it is because she will having a hard time making meaningful impact in each organization. In my life, I have tried to keep my type of business to minimum value. I want to focus on one or two things only to keep my concentration focused. Multitasking is bad, try mono tasking. 

Once in the past I've tried to handle all things by myself. I tried to be active in more than three organizations. The result is that I feel I do no give my very best to each organization because I cannot participate in every aspect of the organization. A lot of schedule overlap makes me need to throw away less important event. Moreover, my academics grade started to falling down while my organizational life is broken. After all that times, I realized that I have made a huge mistake. I cannot try to solve all problems. It was useless and not very effective. In the end, I choose only one organization to be active in. The result is that I feel alive and made meaningful impact. I could focus my concentration and spend a lot of time to find solutions for it's problem. 

Once again multitasking is bad, try mono tasking. While multitasking, your brains are forced to compute several streams of information simultaneously and your brains cannot to that. You need to stop a while and refresh when you want to switch focus to another activity. The problem is that the pause between switching activities is slowing you down and lowering the quality of what you do.

Unfortunately, a lot of people do not aware the dangerous of multitasking while in the other hand the most needed resource in one organization is undivided attention. Most of them are happy being multitasking person because they think that they can accomplish more than being mono tasking person. It truly undivided attention is the scarcest resource for the time being. So, please deeply reconsider again if you want to take another job while you are doing something. I, myself, believe that those people that could focus in only one thing is the most useful and needed. Could you?

The Rise and Fall of Introvert

It's been a long time ago since I was this tired after attending some event. This event was very important for me and I really give my best heart and sweat in it. The problem is that I am an introvert and I need to deal with a lot of people. It was like a retreat but only lasted for two days.

At the event, I tried to fight my own mind that loves to do everything alone and effectively. I did not bought any of my reading books so that I could focus on the people. Even though I know that my body will gone worn out quickly, but I knew that I have to do this. It is my job and it is my calling. Every single pulse in my brain told me to keep a distance from a lot of peoples, but my heart gives me strength to interact with enormous amount of people.

I know that my role in the event was very important. I need to show my best condition at all times. Keep energetic, initiate a conversation, and tell stories.  I'm almost completely exhausted after reaching my home. After all, I'm happy because I know that I've done the right thing even if my body resist it. Thanks a lot guys. :D