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    My family wants to know whether it's type related. My ENFp dad is proud to be a multitasker. (Actually, his usual multitasking consists of walking into a room, forgetting why, and loosing something at the same time.) My ISTp mom says she doesn't multitask because she likes to do things right. She does laundry while she cooks. I love to multitask, mainly because I love to save as much time as possible and have plenty to spare. I love efficiency and productivity. I have multiple windows up on computer, and while stuff loads I'll do something else.

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    I like multitasking... and I also like efficiency. I'm not sure about productivity. I don't care how long it takes... I just want to get it right.

    It's interesting... because my ENFj dad pretty much does things only 1 thing at a time. I can't imagine doing things like that.

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    Multitasking is the essence of my life.
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    My ENFp dad is proud to be a multitasker. (Actually, his usual multitasking consists of walking into a room, forgetting why, and loosing something at the same time.)


    Well... Me too actually. Especially when i'm doing boring or unimportant things. But when I put my mind on it, I can monitor 3 simple tasks at once. No more, or it would get poorly executed. For complex tasks, one at a time.

    About multi-tasking... What is annoying is when a cashier talks endlessly about unimportant things while 20 persons are waiting at the checkout. Couldn't he/she do his/her job while talking ? Or get it quickly done so he/she could talk comfortably after (and not making you lose your time) ?
    Don't you think it's infuriating ? Every time I'm pissed off with this kind of behaviour, I get disapproving looks.

    By the way, I'm INFx, let's say INFJ, for statistics.

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    This might answer your question. Process-Result.

    Process
    Prefer to finish the entire process till the end before doing something else.
    Do things sequentially, from the beginning to the end.
    Immersed to a process and tends to single-tasking.
    Focus between the beginning and the end of processes.
    More inclined to read texts on books or computer from beginning to the end.
    Socially more inclined to large groups.
    Result
    Use words such as "start", "end", "result" very quite often, and can have many things running in parallel and managing them quite ok.
    Do things randomly, seemingly doing them from the end to the beginning.
    Detached from processes and tends to multitasking.
    Focus on the beginning and the end of processes.
    More inclined to read texts on books or computer randomly, maybe reading random paragraphs or chapters.
    Socially more inclined to small groups or intimate conversations.
    The process IM types are ILE, SEI, EIE, LSI, SEE, ILI, LSE, EII.
    The result IM types are ESE, LII, SLE, IEI, LIE, ESI, IEE, SLI.

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    I don't consider myself a big multitasker, but others of the process type certainly do and can never fully understand what I'm working at. Everything is so outwardly casual for me. Inward others see chaos, however I tend to look at reasons why there isn't chaos, what can be adjusted.

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    I tend to have a lot of tasks open at once (100+ tabs open in firefox, music/movie playing, reading a book) so people assume I'm SUPER MULTITASKAR.

    I only focus at one at a time though, so really I'm not multitasking. I actually have a rough time with interruptions and focusing on more than one thing. If I'm doing something while talking to you, it's not that I'm being a talented multitasker, I'm actually not hearing a word you're saying :wink:
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    I do multitask and I'm good at it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banana Pancakes View Post
    I tend to have a lot of tasks open at once (100+ tabs open in firefox, music/movie playing, reading a book) so people assume I'm SUPER MULTITASKAR.

    I only focus at one at a time though, so really I'm not multitasking. I actually have a rough time with interruptions and focusing on more than one thing. If I'm doing something while talking to you, it's not that I'm being a talented multitasker, I'm actually not hearing a word you're saying :wink:
    yeah that rings true for me basically, if I actually want to get something done. Otherwise nothing gets done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by polikujm View Post
    This might answer your question. Process-Result.
    I think it's one of these dichotomies which aren't really working in detail. Like, ILIs preferring large groups of people? And the first point about process, "do things sequentially"... see ESE's PoLR, yet it's the result type. Also the types listed (LSE, SLI) seem to contradict observations from this thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    My family wants to know whether it's type related. My ENFp dad is proud to be a multitasker. (Actually, his usual multitasking consists of walking into a room, forgetting why, and loosing something at the same time.) My ISTp mom says she doesn't multitask because she likes to do things right. She does laundry while she cooks. I love to multitask, mainly because I love to save as much time as possible and have plenty to spare. I love efficiency and productivity. I have multiple windows up on computer, and while stuff loads I'll do something else.
    Interestingly, I like to multitask and have always considered myself pretty good at it, until I met my dual and realized he is much better at multitasking than I am, and I actually am pretty bad at it because of how distracted I get.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    My family wants to know whether it's type related. My ENFp dad is proud to be a multitasker. (Actually, his usual multitasking consists of walking into a room, forgetting why, and loosing something at the same time.) My ISTp mom says she doesn't multitask because she likes to do things right. She does laundry while she cooks. I love to multitask, mainly because I love to save as much time as possible and have plenty to spare. I love efficiency and productivity. I have multiple windows up on computer, and while stuff loads I'll do something else.
    Might be an age component to it too. Remember, your parents, when young, would have thought multi-tasking was changing the ribbon on the typewritter, while dabbing some white-out on a typo, and at the same time checking their spelling in a dictionary (book).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    My family wants to know whether it's type related. My ENFp dad is proud to be a multitasker. (Actually, his usual multitasking consists of walking into a room, forgetting why, and loosing something at the same time.) My ISTp mom says she doesn't multitask because she likes to do things right. She does laundry while she cooks. I love to multitask, mainly because I love to save as much time as possible and have plenty to spare. I love efficiency and productivity. I have multiple windows up on computer, and while stuff loads I'll do something else.
    Sweetheart, I want to say this as softly as I can, you can't be efficient if you multitask because the nature of Te is such that it sets a standard of prefered outcome therefore they take great care to singletask and do it very well...in many socionics literature you will read that they get wrapped up in the details of a single project.

    Cracka is not Te, how would he know? He is ESE...workaholic ESE
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    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    I don't totally agree with that maritsa... I won't speak for anyone else but I know this may still ring true for some others. In my work, I'm the most efficient person I know because of my ability to multitask efficiently.
    I guess it's how a person would define multitasking though...

    In my case, lets say I have 4 pieces of equipment running monitors that take anywhere from 3-30 minutes a piece. The being able to multitask aspect comes in when I know what needs to be started first in order to get everything done as efficiently as possible. So I'll start a monitor that runs for 30 minutes first, that's obvious. Then I may start something that runs for 4 or 5 minutes so I can get other stuff started during those 5 minutes on other equipment before going back and starting something else on the equipment who's monitor is complete after 5 minutes, etc...

    I do agree that in some cases, multitasking can easily be an inefficient way of doing things... but again, it depends on the type of multitasking that one is doing. You can't say that it's not efficient to bake a cake in the oven, start a meal on the stove, throw some laundry in the washer, and do some dishes in the dishwasher all at practically the same time. Then again, this is multitasking to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maritsa33 View Post
    Sweetheart, I want to say this as softly as I can, you can't be efficient if you multitask because the nature of Te is such that it sets a standard of prefered outcome therefore they take great care to singletask and do it very well...in many socionics literature you will read that they get wrapped up in the details of a single project.

    Cracker is not Te, how would he know? He is ESE...workaholic ESE
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    Quote Originally Posted by WorkaholicsAnon View Post
    Fake.
    I knew the minute I mentioned workaholic in a post that you were going to come chase my tail.
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    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    At least pay a little bit of attention and spell my damn name right. Cracker is such a racist term.

    lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cracka View Post
    At least pay a little bit of attention and spell my damn name right. Cracker is such a racist term.

    lol.
    Sorry, multi tasking, spacy INFj behavior coupled with N and no S in sight to be found, produces a lot of odd things.

    Did I tell you that my ESE sister is my walking spell check...
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    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

    Best description of functions:
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