026: Multitask Myth:

We live in a culture of hustle and accomplish, the way we can do all the things is to multitask.  What is multitasking?  What is the harm in doing multiple things at once, and what is the alternative?  

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“What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50%.” – Susan Cain

Dr. Bryant Adibe, Chief Wellness Officer at Rush University System for Health.   “mono tasking is a deep mindset and causes you to reexamine your relationship to time, your most precious and fundamental asset.  At the end of our lives, no one will remember how quickly we responded to emails; and no one on their deathbed asks for more time to sit through another budget meeting.  Instead, we look for more time to do and experience the things that give us meaning and a sense of purpose.  That is at the core of mono-tasking, it is about rethinking the way we work so we can more meaningfully engage with our environment.”

Neal Stephenson, an author, explains this concept by saying “If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels.  If I allow for interruptions, what replaces it?  Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time,,, there is a bunch of email messages that I have sent out to individual persons.”

“Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese Proverb