Everyone has their own technique for drying their hair after
washing. It never looks like what they do in the salons. I can’t seem to get my
wrist to go in the direction needed, and I have this limiting belief that if I
wiggle my brush hand back and forth quickly while I dry it, I can cover more
ground. This is not only not true, it’s inefficient. I end up with hair that
doesn’t curl under or look like what I intended. It looks half-baked, exactly
as if I had given my hair only some of my attention, which is, of course, the
net effect of this “technique.” Add to this, I am watching the news at the same
time and end up drying only one side of my head to a crisp, depending on the
interest level of the story.
Where else does this show up? If I don’t pay focused
attention to what I’m doing, I will have a half-baked result.
Are you trying in vain to cover all your bases, and ending
up not covering any of them particularly well? Many of us are addicted to
multi-tasking…or what we think is multi-tasking. The brain doesn’t multi-task.
It switch-tasks, which means it processes tasks very rapidly in succession, but
not simultaneously. However, you have the experience of doing these tasks at
the same time and even think you are doing them well. But the reality is you
are not doing any of these tasks well. This is proven by neuroscience research.
What if you did them one at a time, consciously? What would
be the impact? I hear you saying you don’t have enough time, and that’s why you
“multi-task” (switch task). Well, what time would you save by not having to go
back and fix or complete what you did the first time?
