Exercise 3

Yesterday I thought of a new exercise offered in Michaels School for the Gifted (click me). True multitasking. We have the hardware, but we lack the adequate training.

School feed us information and frameworks of thought. But they do not provide adequate methods of expanding our information processing skills.

When faced with an issues, the vast majority of people analyze it from various vantages. However, each vantage is analyzed seperately and sequentially before later on being brought together to form a decision.

This is very similar to the method computers used to in ages past: shifting the majority of focus from one application to the next. The application in the foreground would be given a 90% focus, while applications in the background share 10%. This is a facade of multitasking. True multitasking is the ability to have 100% focus on each seperate unit processed i.e. 100% processing functionality for the foreground, and 100% for each application in the background.

My idea is in training people to be able to do the same. Training should include:

1) Physical training while trying to do increasingly difficult mental tasks: mathematical and logical

2) Increasingly difficult physical training while trying to do increasingly difficult mental tasks: mathematical and logical

3) Reciting a memorized phrase (60 words or so) while solving simple mathematical problems. Leading up to logical problems.

4) Reciting a memorized phrase (60 words or so) while reading another phrase. Leading up to finally memorizing the new phrase.