Melwani and Kapadia share their findings in their paper, “More Tasks, More Ideas: The Positive Spillover Effects of Multitasking on Subsequent Creativity ” in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
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New studies which look at the long term effects of multitasking have shown that it enables creativity by tying together diverse actions, thoughts and ideas when the mind is free from rigid focus or diffused.
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Multitasking fractures your attention between multiple tasks at the same time; monotasking fully focuses on one task.
It can take 20-40 percent more time to finish a list of jobs when you multitask, compared with completing the same list of tasks in sequence.
Forget about multitasking and, instead, focus on one task at a time. That way, you'll produce higher quality work.
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