Doing Twice as Much as You Should, Half as Well as You Could
Multitasking is chipping away at your concentration one interruption at a time.
People who multitask all the time can’t:
- filter out irrelevancy
- manage a working memory
- are chronically distracted
- are terrible at multitasking
Figure out your ONE Thing . Ruthlessly prioritize your life to only focus on the essentials. The fear of not completing our to-do list is the reason behind our multitasking habit.
The solution isn’t to work more. The solution is to chip the list short and only keep what matters. Once you do that, you’ll no longer feel the pressure to do ten different things at one time.
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