Shards of Consciousness

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Shards of Consciousness Podcast. This episode is based on an article originally posted in August of 2006 - The Delusion of Multitasking.

Most of us have heard the phrase jack of all trades, master of none. This saying illustrates the problem with multitasking - you're not going to be really good at any of the things you try to do at the same time. The idea that we can do many things well simultaneously is a chimera that I've tried to discourage for a long time. Lately other people are also pointing out this issue, most notable Ben Yoskovitz in Does Multitasking Really Make You More Productive?.

Attention is a necessary prerequisite to excellence in anything. When you scatter it, you impose limits that do not need to be there. Help yourself. Help your life. Monotask, don't multitask. :-)

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