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Constant multitasking
Multitasking is a proven method for getting little done. It wastes time by slowing your progress down on every individual task.
- On your computer, fill every pixel of space with as many windows and tabs, all related to different tasks. Then switch between those tabs and tasks as often as possible.
- Use notifications to pull you away from your focus. Use it on as many applications and services as possible.
Focusing on one task may make you actually complete it. It might give you the momentum to accomplishing another task. This can be avoided by multitasking.
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Not exercising
One study suggests that working out improves both productivity and satisfaction.
Staying in your chair and moving as little as possible is a sure way to feel exhausted at the end of the day.
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Never making a plan
A direct way to exhaust yourself:
- You start your day with a general, vague sense of your priorities.
- To prevent yourself from making progress, you don't write your tasks down anywhere. Then you can remember a particular task while busy with another, briefly panic, and doing...
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Not taking real breaks
To help you get nothing done while feeling exhausted, don't take breaks during unplanned work. Keep struggling.
Do tasks that don't directly accomplish anything. Email and Slack are great for this because neither are directly productive or relaxing. Check Twitter or read the news to get a ...
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How to burn yourself out
It is easy to constantly be burnt out while also accomplishing very little.
It takes years of practice. You have to build up habits where the line between work and time-wasting is practically blurred. You have to lack self-awareness and refrain from reflecting on your own shortcomings.
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Avoid multitasking
Multitasking has been proven to reduce our cognitive abillities due to the fact that the brain can only fully focus on one task at a time. Even though multitasking can be beneficial in various situations, you should avoid it as much as you can whenever you deal with important tasks.
Multitasking vs monotasking
Multitasking fractures your attention between multiple tasks at the same time; monotasking fully focuses on one task.
- Multitasking is less about being able to work on more tasks at the same time, and more about hoe we switch between different tasks while not giving o...
5. Stop Multitasking
Multitasking is a myth! As NPR reports , humans can’t physically multitask. Our brains instead juggle attention from one task to the other so quick we’re given the illusion we’re multitasking.
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